"Application of Bax Normilasation in Saudi Arabia: The how!"

HI everyone,

  This is about Stephan Bax argues that, "Our aim should be to attain a state of `normalisation'
in which the technology is invisible and truly integrated".

      The aim of CALL (Computer Assisted Language) learning according to Stephen Bax’s point of view, is to work towards a situation where computers are fully integrated into pedagogy in a state of “normalisation”. Normalisation refers to the situation in which computers form an integral part of every lesson, so as a pen, notebook or books do. The purpose is not that computers become the center of any lesson but become an integral natural part of it.

   The advantages that normalization of CALL brings into the classroom are many and varied. For instance they connect us with the wider literature on educational changes the wider research an innovation and change and it offers CALL practitioners a clear aim and a clear agenda.

  Stephen Bax and Andrea Chambers tell us that vast research has been conducted to identify the factors impacting the normalisation of CALL positively or negatively. The main factors obstructing normalization are cost and fear. Secondly, training development. Cost and fear mean that technology equipment is expensive and not all schools can afford the disbursement. Fear means that not all teachers feel comfortable about using computers and least of all intelligent white boards. The third main impediment for normalization is lack of training.

    In the Saudi Arabia context, teachers as an integral part of every lesson like a pen or a book. Teachers and students will use them without worry or shyness, and equally without an overstated respect for what they can do. They will not be the centre of any lesson, but they will play a part in almost all. They will be completely integrated into all other aspects of  classroom life, next to course books, teachers and notepads. They will go almost ignored.