Summary of the main aspects of Normalisation of CALL

By

Chambers, Andrea, & Bax, Stephen

In this paper I’m going to explain the main points of the Normalisation of CALL
research by Stephen Bax. Also I’m going to add some aspects that that were mention
in class.

Normalisation is the situation when technologies are used in our daily classroom
work as naturally as a whiteboard or a course book. However, despite impressive
advances in the range and possibilities of computer related technology, by extensive
efforts at teacher training in many contexts, language teachers on the whole still treat
computers as marginal, and have largely failed to achieve this 'normalisation' of
computers in their daily work.

The aim of CALL practitioners is to work towards a state where computers are fully
integrated into pedagogy, a state of normalisation. The aim of this research is to
identify de factors impacting on the normalization of CALL, positively or
negatively, and to identify through this analysis productive ways of normalization in
the future.

You can make more effective the use of computers (and other learning
technologies) in language education. Using aim of normalisation in your own
practice with students’ needs, then try to use technology naturally, simply with other
teaching tools and activities.

Yaressi Lizeth Benavides Camargo

There are some advantages as it allows us to connect with the wider literature on
educational change. It connects us with the wider research on innovation and change
and offers CALL practitioners a clear aim and a clear agenda.

The complements of the research approach are, Observations of classes, Informal

conversations and interviews with a range of teachers.

Normalization requires that conceptions on the part of different stakeholders,

including teachers and management, concerning the role of computers in language
learning be of a type conducive to integration and normalization.

The main findings of the research will indicate the main factors which seemed to be
impeding normalisation. (logistics, stakeholder’s conceptions, syllabus and software
investigation, training development and support)

Some problems that some teachers have are that they don’t know how to use
technology. The lack of training that is one of the reasons why the Internet is not
extensively used in current practice.

One way of doing this is to see development not in terms of training workshops but
as an ongoing process, possibly through the formation of teams of “expert” working
with “non-expert”.

Successful normalization of CALL requires that should be properly integrated into

the syllabus, and support provided for teachers who may be uneasy about their new
roles.

Bibliography
Yaressi Lizeth Benavides Camargo
Chambers, Andrea, & Bax, Stephen. (2006). Making call work: towards

normalization

http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/Publications/documents/doczkal_bachelor.pdf

Yaressi Lizeth Benavides Camargo