The emerging technologies of computers and multimedia provide opportunities for even more learning experiences for ESL students. Word processing, e-mail, computer software, the Internet, and the World Wide Web are all sources of more and different learning activities. The interactive nature of multimedia provides new ways to enhance the ESL learning experience.

Teachers use multimedia with ESL students for a variety of reasons. The text, graphics, video, and audio encourage immersion

In the field of methodology, there is always a disadvantage for every advantage. The advantage is that CALL, like other new technologies, brings about changes in the teaching methodologies of English. There are cases, though, in which computers are just used to give old materials a new aspect. This is the case of teachers who put students in front of the computer just to make fill-in-the-gap exercises.

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Language Learning, Wide Web, Funding ESL, INTRODUCTION Technology, CONCERNS CALL, TRENDS ISSUES, †learners, language learning, instructional goals, esl students, emerging technologies, Computer Assisted, Assisted Language, assisted language learning, language skills, teachers meeting, instructional technology, original posting, critical thinking, computer assisted language,