TASK 3: CALL Program Assessment

Utami Dewi K. (0708066047)

English Department

Post Graduate Program

University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka

Jakarta 2007

THE ANALYSIS OF THE READY – MADE COMPUTERIZED LANGUAGE LEARNING PROGRAMS

1. LEARN ENGLISH

The advantages:

• There are vary of games about the activity and everything met in daily life such as; food, color, shopping, countries etc. So, it will be more attractive and fun.
• Before starting to play the games, there are also many options which game that the player would like to try based on the level of intelligence and balanced with his/ her capacity (hard, easy, word practice, speaking practice, etc).
• We can print out the task which we have done and finished.
• We could know the result, point, and respond directly.
• Colorful, interesting, has alot of pictures and characters.
• We can choose any game which we love best.
• The pronounciation is clear enough.
• The higher level of learners could learn sentences and not only a phrase or words. Furthermore, its sentence is supported by a character.

• We could record our voices and replay. So, we could evaluate our mistakes and failures in spelling and pronounciation.
• I have implemented it to a 4 grade student of elementary school and it works well.

2. The Issue in English

The advantages:

• Someone speaks up, tells story about truth experience.
• I can operate it in winamp.
• There are several people who incharge inside from many countries with different informations and pronounciations.
• Our auditorials are functioning.
• It works for Senior High School students.

The disanvatages:

• Monotoniously
• The caracters are not movable widely, we only see their faces and gestures. So, it is not really attractive for children.
• Sometimes different spelling could influence our hearings and meanings.

3. Speak English

The advantages:

• It has a vary of games (numerical and words).
• The alphabet is effective for kindergarten and elementary school.
• The conversation is useful for secondary students.
• It tells about different situations and places (at restaurant, station, etc).
• We are trained to be able in using question.

The disanvatages:

• There is not character alive.
• There are long sentences which could be difficult to be understood for elementary students.
• There is picture but not movable.

4. Sing a Song

Sir, I’m so sorry. Actually the CD doesn’t work well. I’ve tried many times to open it in different computers but it’s useless, but I still try to evaluate based on my opinion from our last training several sessions ago.

The advantages:

• Enjoyable

• It is effective for preschooler.

• There are alive moving characters.

• Interesting for listening and teaching vocabulary.

• Learn with rhyme is easier, quicker, and fun.