The+Problem+with+CALL+Research+-+Clarke

de Lisle's summary of Clarke's article "Media Will Never Influence Learning" (sorry, this article is not online):


 * Instructional Methods** differ from **Instructional Media**.


 * **Methods** are fundamental ways of working to bring about a change in the learner's cognitive processes (e.g., providing an example to connect old and new information).
 * **Media** are the means by which the method is delivered to the learner.
 * **Media attributes** are the delivery methods which a particular medium offers (e.g., zooming in video).

"//...There is no single media attribute that serves a unique cognitive effect for some learning task, ...[so] the attributes must be proxies for some other variables that are instrumental in learning gains//" (Clarke, 1994: 22).

//NEXT//

Clarke, R. E. (1994). Media will never influence learning. //Educational Technology Research and Development,// 42(2), 21-30.

de Lisle, P. (n.d.) Summary of Clarke (1994): "Media will never influence Learning" (M.Ed. Project). Available at http://hagar.up.ac.za/catts/learner/peterdl/ClarkeKozma.htm