Introducing computer aided language learning to Sri Lankan schools: Challenges and perspectives

Several studies conducted at Sri Lankan universities since 2004 in integrating web-based learning and interactive computer aided language learning in English as a Second Language and foreign languages proved to be most successful in enhancing student performance, broadening world knowledge, increasing interest and motivation in autonomous learning. One fifth of the 20 million population of Sri Lanka consists of school children. Hence, it is more than appropriate to examine the impact of computer aided language learning to school children and ascertain whether similar benefits could be reaped as at universities during the previous studies that provided a strong platform for the present research. Thus, this study focuses on the challenges and future perspectives of integrating interactive computer aided language learning into the secondary schools in Sri Lanka.