Technological Change and the Future of CALL

In this paper “Technological Change and the Future of CALL”, Mark Warschauer discussed the future of computer-assisted language learning (CALL).First, he pointed the factors using in his paper to talk about the future of CALL and he considered one of them is the most important factor which is technological change. He concerned in clarifying the relationship between technology change and other outcomes, in order to define "Technological determinism". Technological determinism refers to the idea that the introduction of new technology automatically brings certain results. He also makes use of Pauls' classification of hard determinism and soft determinism to support his idea.

"In thinking about the possible pedagogical changes enabled by new technologies, it is important to look broader than the classroom itself", from this point of view he started discussing the ten developments in Information and Communication Technology. He deeply clarify how the technology can exchange the way of receiving and sharing information and what kind of communication can be used to make the use of CALL effective.

Furthermore, he believed that the development of technology will affect English teaching in regard to new contexts, new literacies, new genres, new identities, and new pedagogies.Gnerally, he saw the development in these five areas will make the use of CALL in educational process more necessary. Structural CALL, communicative CALL, and integrative CALL are the three phases used by Mark to show the development of CALL over the years.

According to the state of ICT in my country, I can simply say: there is a great development of ICT in Saudi Arabia .Teachers and students have their right to use technology inside the schools or colleges but with very strict rules.