Roed’s paper demonstrates the advantages of the online language study, and most importantly, it helps us identify the hardly noticeable problems during the study. Firstly, the students’ behaviors can change when they are exposed to a virtual environment, compared to their behaviors displaying in the classroom. Secondly, a virtual environment could in part increase the participation, but it could not contribute to the communication in the real life, since it is impossible for the students to depend on the e-mail or in chat room for their whole lives.
Every coin has two sides. A virtual environment is, to some degree, effective to solve teaching limits of the classroom. However, it also creates the other problems itself. These two problems above are what may be encountered in the actual practice when using computers in language learning. As teachers, we should be objective towards any teaching strategy and do not rely on any single one. It is better to explore new pedagogic approaches when coming across particular teaching problems.
A virtual environment is still a new land for most learners and teachers. There must be a lot of advantages for us to discover and unexpected problems to be solved. All in all, let us be the explorers and make the most of every new strategy.
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Interesting post - I am looking forward to hearing more about how you think cmc can be used for language learning!
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