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A definition of CALL
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is often perceived, somewhat narrowly, as an approach to language teaching and learning in which the computer is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial **interactive** element. Levy ([|1997:1]) defines CALL more succinctly and more broadly as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning". Levy's definition is in line with the view held by the majority of modern CALL practitioners. For a comprehensive overview of CALL see ICT4LT Module 1.4, //Introduction to Computer Assisted Language Learning// (CALL): [].

CALL embraces a wide range of ICT applications and approaches to teaching and learning foreign languages from the traditional "drill-and-practice" programs that characterized CALL in the 1960s and 1970s. It's now more used in virtual learning environment and also web-based distance learning; it also can be used in corpora and concordancing, interactive whiteboards, CMC and MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning).

CALI (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction) & TELL (Technology-Enhanced Language Learning) are two terms used before CALL and somehow as an alternative to CALL.

At first, the traditional CALL programs presented as a stimulus to which the learner had to provide a response in a way that, a stimulus was in a form of a text presented on a screen, and the only way in which learner could respond was by entering and answer at the keyboard which considered as a respose.