online communities of practice

Communities of practice are groups of people who share common ideas and do things on a common issue by interaction. Not all groups of people are called communities of practice because they have three major features forming them. The first one is the domain. A community of is not just a group of friends, it has a characteristics defined by a experienced domain of interest, and therefore a shared competence makes the members of the community of practice different from other people. The second feature is the community. If a group of people does not interact with each other, does not share their ideas or help each other that mean this group of people is not a community of practice. The last feature is the practice. The members of a community of practice develop a shared practice, in short they are practitioners. The combination of these three features forms the communities of practice. This concept is used in organizations, government, education, civic life, etc.

history of call

CALL is the abbreviation of the computer-assisted language learning. It emerged first in the 1960s, but it did not gain much importance until the early 1980s when microcomputers began to have a role in education. In 1980 some basic programs were developed by teachers and they were free. As the time passed, programs were developed more and with the help of new changes in Mac, teachers preferred using PCs in classrooms, for example in writing classes, they used word processors. Until the early 1990s, programs continued being developed. In mid-1990s in home computers the use of commercial multi-media for language learning as CD-ROMs increased. The use of World Wide Web also increased and CALL has been integrated into language learning both in and outside of the class.