MALL or CALL?


Well, in this opportunity I would like to share on my class session about technology in language learning. Among Technology, teaching and learning process are the thing that has quite important relationship. In this era, teaching and learning process can be nice and interesting thing because the teachers use technology in every single time of their teaching. But it does not happen to all of the school in Indonesia. It depends on the facilities of the school. By using technology, teaching and learning process especially language, can be easier. Besides, technology can support in teaching and learning process. It can be proved by video, slide presentation, tape-recorder and so on.
During the class session, I felt impressed because I have never known before that technology especially in this case mobile phone can assist learning and teaching process. I could know that formerly, in teaching and learning process there were not technology that can be integrated in language learning. People who used mobile phone with antenna on its cell phone at that time were the rich persons. The mobile phone that they used also was not up to date if it compared with now. But at the time, it was a sophisticated technology.  
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning or MALL is one of media that can help the teacher in teaching and learning language. Again, mobile phone is a portable technology. So, it will make easier in the usage. Another media that can help teaching and learning language is CALL or Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Call can help the teacher also but in this case, I think CALL is better than MALL because CALL can do everything rather than MALL. I can see from its sophisticated software and ability.