Subject: Introduction to Digital Language Teaching
Name: Jenny
Student Number: M0032002
Design Document
Introduction
This is a CALL listening program for learners who want to pass the TOEIC listening
tests. The purpose of this program is to improve learners’ TOEIC listening comprehension.
The pedagogical approach is the audiolingual method. This CALL program is basically a
process of mechanical habit formation. By listening to short conversations and short talks and
performing pattern drills, the chances of producing mistakes are minimized. Drills enable
learners to choose the correct answers. The language teaching methodologists who developed
audiolingualism had a convincing and powerful theory of language to draw upon—known as
behavioral psychology. “There are three crucial elements in learning: a stimulus, which serves
to elicit behavior; a response triggered by a stimulus; and reinforcement, which serves to
mark the response as being appropriate and encourages the repetition of the response in the
future.”(Richards & Rodgers, 2003, p.56) Language mastery is represented as acquiring a set
of appropriate language stimulus-response chains. As a result, this CALL program can help
learners enhance their TOEIC listening abilities based on the audiolingual method.
This CALL program will be built by ViewletBuilder version 6 Enterprise. Every
student is required to have his or her own personal computer or notebook which can run the
Windows XP operating system. Every learner has to have Internet capabilities on his or her
personal computer or notebook.
The People
In this CALL program, the subject specialist will provide the appropriate content and
pedagogical input. There will also be an author who knows how to use ViewletBuilder to
build this program, a graphic designer to create TOEIC listening comprehension pictures for
this listening program, a sound technician to produce audio of the listening practice questions,
and an instructional designer to build the CALL program to interact with the learners. Each
lesson will contain audio files followed by repetition drills. The interactive CALL program
can help the learners to improve their listening comprehension through drills and practice.
Detailed Information
This listening CALL program is designed for the students who want to pass the TOEIC
tests. If the students passed the GEPT intermediate level, they would be easier for them to
practice the CALL program. Students who pass this level can use basic English to
communicate about topics in daily life. If the students haven’t passed the GEPT intermediate
level, they would still be able to use the CALL program. It will take them more time to
master the program. Teachers, who want to teach TOEIC or want to help students pass
TOEIC tests, will use this program. It can be used during a listening class. The TOEIC
listening test contains four parts. They are photographs, question-response, short
conversations, and short talks. For example, students can listen to the short conversations or
the short talks together. After listening to the short conversations or the short talks, students
have to identify the main ideas and find the detailed information in the short conversations
and the short talks. Students can practice the CALL program until they are able to master
each test question. It can also be used at home as an extra work. This CALL program permits
each student to proceed at his own rate. The most important thing is that this program can
improve listening comprehension and create a happy and fun environment to attract learners
and guide them to enjoy listening activities.
Objectives
After students finish the CALL program, they should be able to do the following:
A. Get 785 on their TOEIC test.
B. Indicate the cause and effect relationships in a 2-minute short conversation by choosing
an appropriate answer with 80 percent accuracy.
C. Identify the main idea in a 3-minute short conversation by choosing an appropriate
answer with 80 percent accuracy.
D. Recognize supporting details in a 3-minute short conversation by choosing an appropriate
answer with 80 percent accuracy.
E. Identify the cause and effect relationships in a 3-minute short talk by choosing an
appropriate answer with 80 percent accuracy.
F. Identify comparisons and contrasts in a 3-minute short talk by choosing an appropriate
answer with 80 percent accuracy.
G. Recognize cohesive devices showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and
persuasion.
Design of the CALL Program
Introduction slide
Learners will see “TOEIC Secret Garden” on the introduction slide. This is a listening
exercise for learners who want to pass TOEIC tests. Learners will see a “Click to start”
button. They can click “Click to start” to start the program.
Listening slide
When learners use the listening CALL program, they can see pictures on the slide. There
are two buttons on the listening slide. Learners can see the “Click to listen” button and “Next”
button. When clicking the “click to listen” button, learners can listen to the short
conversations or the short talks. Clicking the “Next” button will move to exercise slide.
Every listening slide has pictures and two buttons.
Exercise slide
After the listening slide, click the “Next” button to move to the exercise slide. There are
three questions about the listening. Each question is on a different slide. Those questions are
multiple choice questions and test for listening comprehension. Learners have two chances to
answer each question. If they still have the wrong answer the second time, they have to listen
to the short conversations or the short talks again.
Final slide
After the exercise questions, the end slide will show “Congratulations” and applaud the
learners. There are two buttons on this slide: one is “Listen to it again” button for going
back to the listening slide; the other one is the “Finish” button for finishing the listening
practice and closing the program.
Process Flow Diagram
Introduction Page
Listening Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
No
Lesson 1
Correct?
Finish
Yes
Listen to
it again.
Testing
This program must be tested before giving it to the students. Testing should run the
whole program and check every single function on every slide. The program should be run in
Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Perhaps, the program will have some technical
problems, such as no sound, the button doesn’t work, and so on. The content of program must
be checked because sometimes typing errors may occur.
If the students haven’t passed the GEPT intermediate level, teachers would have to teach
them the intermediate level word lists which are on the GEPT official website first. If the
students passed the GEPT intermediate level, they would practice this CALL program at
home on their own.
Conclusion
I hope this program can help students to improve their TOEIC listening abilities. After
students practice the CALL program, I hope they can master every question and pass the
TOEFL tests. As the saying goes, “Practice makes perfect.” Only by spending time on
practicing the exercises in the CALL program can students get higher scores on their TOEIC
tests.
References
Brown, J. D. (1995) The Element of Language Curriculum: A Systematic Approach to
Program Development. Boston: Cengage Learning
Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (2003) Approaches and methods in Language Teaching
(2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press