How CALL Relate to Our Previous Courses

Even though behaviourist is the earliest in CALL, some of the experience that we gained throughout our studies as BENL students is much related to it. For example, in day-to-day lecture, our tutors would apply positive and negative reinforcement. They would compliment us for good performance and reprimand us for any wrongdoings.

There are many assignment in BENL courses that we have taken which require us to use computer. For example, we use computer to complete our assignment in Critical Discourse Analysis. One of the assignments is on coercive language in advertisements. We need the computer to provide us with various advertisements so that we could extract the coercive language. The use of computer in this assignment helps us to have thorough research to find the advertisements. We can search for both old and the current advertisements by using computers. 

The next subject that needs us to use the computer is Shakespeare in Modern Age and Context. We needed to adapt some of the Shakespeare’s plays. Without the assistance of computer, it is impossible for us to find the adaptation that has been done before. We used the help of websites such as youtube.com and dailymotion.com to find adaptations that other students or organizations had done in order to generate our own idea on a fresh adaptation of the play we were assigned to which was Hamlet.

Firstly, the website provide the behaviorist theory way through providing stimulus for us to gain ideas in making our own adaptation of Hamlet.

Next, after having information of the available type of adaptations out there, we manage to find a new way to adapt the play that is making it into a contemporary time within a company background story with the help of the people that we commented with in the website. This can be link with the communicative theory where the computer act as pupil.

Lastly, after we had decided and written down our adaptation, we used the website to seek information on how to express Hamlet’s father’s ghost in contemporary way which later we decided to make him in a digital form which is a video. Then we use the software Sony Vegas Pro to edit the video that we have recorded.