UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

The invention of the PC created new possibilities for language study and created a boom in language learning software development. Communicative CALL corresponded to the theory of cognitivism, which stressed that learning was a process of discovery, expression, and schema development. Communicative CALL focuses on using the target language in context rather than drilling isolated grammatical items... Integrative CALL arose as a result of two major media breakthroughs based largely on social constructivism and related linguistic theories of language learning. These breakthroughs include: Multimedia CALL (utilizing CD-ROMS), Web-based CALL (online learning), and Web 2.0 and mobile technology.​ The emphasis for Integrative CALL is on language learning through authentic content-based social interaction developed within the context of networked communities of discourse... The earliest forms of CALL implemented in the 1960s and '70s, was based on the behaviorist theories of learning..