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Teaching Literature By and About Minorities The document contains the topic of Teaching Literature By and about Minorities. This article is written by ‘Joanne Dale’ in which he has cited an important issue of teaching literature in the context of the minority groups and country that are in power. The compilation of anthologies of the Literature written by minorities is published by a group of people who belongs to the different minority groups. The collection of the different genres of the literature could be read and taught in the majority clas...
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Computer-assisted language learning From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is succinctly defined in a seminal work by Levy (1997: p. 1) as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning". [ 1 ] CALL embraces a wide range of ICT applications and approaches to teaching and learning foreign languages, from the "traditional" drill-and-practice programs that characterised CALL in the 1960s and 1970s to more recent manifestations of CALL, e.g. as used in a virtual learning environment and Web-based distance learning . It also extends to the use of corpora and concordancers , interactive whiteboards, [ 2 ] Computer-mediated communication (CMC), [ 3 ] language learning in virtual worlds and Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). [ 4 ] The term CALI (Computer-assisted language instruction) was in use before CALL, reflecting its origins as a subset of...