Reflection on Levy

The literature of Levy mentioned the two theories about designing CALL programmes - the CALL proceduralists, who believe that CALL will improve by writing the programme and testing the programme with the users, and CALL formalists, who suggest theories are the foundation of development, writing and evaluating.

I personally tends to believe the proceduralist approach that the development of CALL programmes should take the users and stakeholders into consideration. Writing a theorically perfect CALL programme doesn't mean that the users love and eager to use it. It all depends on the context. Theories, no doubt, is an important element for evaluating the courseware. The theories are good basis for judgemental evaluation. Combining with the empirical evaluation of the real testing on users, the CALL programme can be the one most theorically supported and user-friendly.