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A rationale for teacher education and CALL: The holistic view and its implications

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In a paper written in 1987 entitled “Computers and the Humanities Courses: Philosophical Bases and Approaches” Nancy Ide put forward two views on teacher education in humanities computing, the “Expert User's View” and the “Holistic View”.1 Ide's two views are derived from the collective opinions given by members of a workshop on teaching computing and humanities courses. In this article the degree to which Ide's two Views can be substantiated in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is explored, through a review of the literature and through an international survey on CALL materials development conducted by the author in 1991 (Levy, 1994). On this basis, and given the scarcity of Holistic courses in CALL, a rationale for a CALL course with a holistic orientation is presented.

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Mike Levy's main area of interest is Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), a subject in which he has written a book and published a number of articles. For the past six years he has been coordinating a Master's degree on CALL, initially at Bond University and now at the University of Queensland. He is general editor of On-CALL, the Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education. He is currently working on a book, CALL: Context and Conceptualization, to be published by Oxford University Press.

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Levy, M. A rationale for teacher education and CALL: The holistic view and its implications. Comput Hum 30, 293–302 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00115138

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