Theory-Driven Call & The Development Process

Indeed, the idealistic framework of language pedagogy beginning with descriptions of needs analysis and learning objectives, then learning activities before considering the choice of media, as what Levy (1997) has described, is very familiar and practical to most of the teachers in Hong Kong, due to the contraints of technical supports and lesson time in school. However, I totally agree with Levy that the notion of 'fit' is most valuable.

From the different aspect of views according to the field of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), the 'fit' between the computer's capabilities and the demands of language pedagogy is as practical and effective as the traditional instructional design that we used to learn to apply in our pedagogy in our generations. Since the wrold has moved to the IT era, I strongly believe that the 'fit' approach would be more essential, and teachers need to move on to advance themselves in such development.

Now, I really admire the langauge educators that have equipped with good IT skills!

Reference:
Theory-Driven CALL and the Development Process by Mike Levy (1997