CALL Review II

Online talk group -http://www.voxopop.com/

This site is online talk group site. Anybody all over the world can use this site. You can record your thought or opinion and deliver it through this site. Also if you want to know about other users thought or opinion, you can make a new talk groups and discussions.

 

This site has two advantages in learning English.

 

First, learners can meet various English. Because this online talk group is accessible to the people all over the world, learners can communicate with people from other countries and listen to various style of English. So learners can get a variety of intonation, pronunciation, and voice and be familiar with speaking and listening English.

 

Second, this site help to stimulate the learners' zone of proximal development (ZPD) that is stated by Vygotsky. Vygotsky stressed that learners have a specific zone including higher level than theirs ability. Also he emphasized scaffolding that plays a role of an assistant to improve learners' ability. Utilizing various materials helping students' learning and observing other learners' learning can be all scaffolding. In this point, this site also can be scaffolding for learners. Because learners can be stimulated from recordings of other users that have a higher level, not too perfect, and can improve their capacities belonging in their ZPD.

 

So using this site, learners can improve their English skills.