Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Increasingly Integrated into an Ever More Electronic World

The history of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) in Canada is not long, but it is rich. We did not participate in the first wave of pedagogical uses of the computer, that of the 60s and early 70s, dominated by the United States and characterised by the use of mainframes. Some language programs were developed in those years, but they now seem to be dinosaurs of the genre, unusable, unattractive, and inaccessible, based as they were on the programmed learning model then current in the teaching of the sciences.