Inventions make Human life more easier than it was before. Invention of Computers is now becoming handy tools which can be used for multipurpose. The use of computers in the Education System is also now becoming wider and if we see particularly then Computer Assisted Language Learning is a new emerging field in the Language Learning process where Computers can be used as tools for Language Learning.
The use of Computer in Language Learning can be categorised in three different stages or phases, where step by step new things are added, and enriching the Language Learning process through Computer. These three phases are….
- Behavioristic CALL
- Communicative CALL
- Integrative CALL
Computers serve as a variety of roles where computers can be used as language teaching tools, computers as tutors, computers as stimulus.
"The use of computers does not constitute a method, Rather it is a medium in which a variety of methods, approaches, and pedagogical philosophies may be implemented"
(Garrett 1991)
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