The 60s and 70s

• behaviourism
• audiolingualism
• programmed instruction
• PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations)
• notes files, "talk", TUTOR
• TICCIT (Time-Shared, Interactive, Computer-Controlled Information Television)
• instructional framework

The 80s

• CLT (Communicative Language Teaching)
• microcomputer, BASIC
• Storyboard as an example of text reconstruction (= text manipulation)
• The Athena Language Learning Project (ALLP)
• multimedia environment, artificial intelligence

The 90s

• The International E-mail Tandem Network
• The Camille projects (Computer-Aided Multimedia Interactive Language Learning)
• desktop

• The Oral Language Archive (OLA)
• Focus on Grammar and The Rosetta Stone on CD-Rom
• Distance Learning
• "individual learners working by themselves, at a place and time of their choosing and, to some extent, at a pace and in an order also chosen by themselves" (see Hewer).
• open learning, resource-based learning
• Internet/CD-Rom helpful for: course management and administration, target language communication, community building, delivery of content

Sources

Levy, Michael (1997), Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Context and Conceptualization,Oxford: Clarendon.

www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm, Module 1.4, sections 7-8 (Hewer)