The JALT CALL Journal
Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2006

CALL for autonomy, competence and relatedness: Motivating language learning environments in Web 2.0

Antonie Alm
University of Otago, New Zealand
　

Introduction:

In the last 30 years, computer assisted language learning has gone through significant changes, as illustrated in Warschauer’s taxonomy of structural, communicative and integrative CALL (Warschauer, 2000). Computer technology itself has greatly influenced these developments and prompted innovative applications. It seems that yet again new opportunities for CALL are emerging in what is labelled Web 2.0 in the computer world (O’Reilly, 2005).