Tzu-Pu Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied English, Hsing Wu College
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DIFFICULTIES OF APPIYING COMPOTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION TO TEACHING
Applying the computer technology in English class is so complicated and important that we don't ignore it, but nowadays using CAI strategies is still not pervasive. Several difficulties and challenges need to be solved; several conditions have room to be desired. The researcher analyzes as follows:
The Facilities of the School and Classroom
The computer was not always stable, teaching software was insufficient, the computer classroom difficult to use, and the administrator and the programmer enough time to aid teachers in time. had no And mechanic were necessaries to maintain and remedy computers.
Related Administrators' Emphasis
The school human resources. The budget about maintaining computers was shortage an equipment of the computers was limited so the computer was not necessarily a friendly user. The biggest problem was of the principles and the administrator's sufficient support. So teaching practice in CALL was not easy to set into action.
Teachers' Teaching Beliefs and Styles
Teachers' attitude and beliefs play an important part. Whether teachers decide to apply computer technology depends on their beliefs. Based on their beliefs that technology enrich the current can curriculum, the teachers can make every effort to integrate computer technology English class into teachers would like to make teaching methods creative, innovative and lively then teachers' techniques would be designed, planned, innovated, and evaluated. So the teachers' attitude and beliefs influence teaching and learning effect of the students (Fang, 1996).
Teachers' Computer Competence
Teachers' computer competences affect teaching effects. In the course of the process of teaching, teachers act as facilitators designers, guides and assistants (Warschauer, 1998). So teachers' technology competence should be enhanced. If the teachers are lack of competence, such as computer multimedia contents presented, systematic teaching models applied, and multimedia sources utilized, is impossible for the teachers to integrate technology into teaching efficiently (Wei, 2005). Teachers' Heavy Burden The teacher posted important information on the bulletin board and reminded the students' assignments and test scores. The teacher always spent much time to deal with the computer shutdowns and contacted mechanics and programmers to repair the computer right away. More importantly, the teacher designed curriculums and revised teaching materials to satisfy students' need. So in the course, the teacher played multiple roles (Wang,2000).
Students' Computer Competence
The teacher always found that a lot of information students collected was copied, and posted. Some were not arranged; some were finished by others. Still other information was plentiful but useless because they seemed to have no abilities of organization, data collection, and operation computer. To raise of learning effect, enhancing students' computer competence was urgent (Chien, 2004).
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