reading prompt #4

“CALL” means Computer-Assisted Language Learning. When we choose CALL, we should consider how it assists teacher to teach and what is its advantage and disadvantage
As Levy said, in many respects, the language teachers may be considered designers they need to design materials, develop tasks, teaching goals, class time, class management
They considered the students point of view. Some students may have used different kinds of software.
RSS is an interesting stuff, before I always met RSS logos on all kinds of website, but I didn’t know what it is! Now I realize that it is such a useful tool that we can read the subscribed feeds, which are from many sites, at one place.

reading prompt#2

Egbert (2005) introduced 8 conditions that are used as supports for optimal classroom language learning environment. , blog allows ELLs to use target language actively and creatively in authentic social setting, and they can interact with other ELLs, A lot of ELLs are speaking different languages, in order to exchange ideas, they would use target language to response each other.
Furthermore blogging can be self-paced and feedback can easily be received in the form of comments by both peers and English speakers.
For me because I wrote this after I made my blog it’s useful and more fun. And ES l student can gain more benefits form it.