Teaching and learning Foreign Languages in Uzbekistan

3.2 What Computers Can and Can’t “Do” 
 
Computers CAN 
Computer 
CAN’T 
Judge predetermined right-or-wrong 
answers, e.g., multiple choice and fill-in-
the-blanks 
Judge unexpected input 
Provide immediate, yet fixed, feedback, 
suggestions, and encouragement 
Provide individualized feedback beyond a 
predetermined list of messages  
Provide authentic information 
through multimedia -
 texts, images, sounds,videos, 
and animations 
Engage learner in rich negotiation of 
meaning characteristic of face-to-face 
interaction 
Motivate task persistence 
Motivate depth and quality of 

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•Record learner’s writing, speech, and 
learning progress 
engagement characteristic of human 
interaction 
 
3.3  Roles of the Computer in language learning and teaching: 
- computer as tutor for language drills or skill practice 
- computer as a tool for writing, presenting, and researching 
- computer as a medium of global communication 
3.4 How Computers can be used in the Language Class 
  
1) Teaching with one computer in the class 
                - delivery of content (PowerPoint, word-processor, Webpages, etc.) 
                - classroom activities/discussions mediated by the computer 
                - Interactive whiteboard 
  
2) Teaching  in  the  computer  network  room (network-based  language 
teaching) 
                - task-based group work /activities 
                - computer-mediated communication (CMC): asynchronous/synchronous 
                - tandem learning 
                               
3) Self-access learning (independent learning) 
                - drills and exercises 
                - word processing 
                - resource searching 
  
4) Distance  learning (i.e.  individual  learners  working  by  themselves,  at  a 
place  and  time  of  their  choice  and,  to  some  extent,  at  a  pace  and  in  an 
order also chosen by themselves.) 
                - delivering online course content 
                - CMC activities: email, discussion forum, chat rooms 
                - tandem learning 
                - community building