The Development of CALL
University of Abardeen invested in asystem 4 computer costing a million pounds with the memory was 32K. The University French Department adopted computer-based comprehension testing materials written by Farrington in Fortan IV.
A meeting of SCETALL (Scottish Council for Educational Technology and Language Learning) inviting Rex Last is held by the Director of the language centre, John Devereux at the University of St Andrews.
Farrington presented tutorial CALL materials for French grammar running on line from the University of Aberdeen mainframe at the Burn French Studies Conference.
Farrington, the research assistant Mary Crawford and a working party of teachers had a project to produce CALL materials based on an early version of Bon Accord that running on Apple II computer. This is headed by Dr. Ian Adams of Elgin Academy.
Many teachers were inspired to make homemade programs for a variety of micros by Garvin Bell, the principal lecturer in Modern Languages at Aberdeen College of Education.
Rex Last appointed professor of Modern Languages at the University Dundee. At the University of Glasgow, CALL became a major feature of the recently opened Language Centre.
Dr. Duncan Macrae- gaibson of University of Abardeen creates a beginners’ course in Old English for the BBC micro. And it is still used today in some universities.
CALL workshop is held by John Higgins, Tim Johns, Rex Last and many others that is attended of mixed audience of school and university language teacher at Jordan hill College of Education, Glasgow.
The German department of Aberdeen University ran an integral part of the beginner’s course using Gordon Burgess’ program.
Many teachers were inspired to make homemade programs for a variety of micros by Garvin Bell, the principal lecturer in Modern Languages at Aberdeen College of Education.
Graham Davies, John Higgins, Tim Johns and Rex Last held SCETALL Conference at the university of Aberdeen on CALL that is attended by mixed public of secondary school and university teachers.
There is also another conference on Computers in Modern Languages that is attended by over a hundred teacher organized by Alastair Campbell in five days at the Aberdeen College of Education.
After John Higgins joined Centre for English Language Teaching at Stirling University, CALL and TESOL are launched as a course in postgraduate degree. CALL has some components such as e-mail and web language learning, software writing, concordancing and data-driven learning.
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