Today we always find that teachers are excited about the rising opportunities for students’ learning by the advent of CALL, however, there are also some problems, worries, and challenges that teachers have to encounter in class. Compared with the impact of traditional class, students who have experienced CALL activities seem more easily to learn autonomously by using the technology resources. Some students may read the screen with an online dictionary window open aligned with text window; some students prefer to check the writing grammar through the available corpus; and some students even build their own corpus of texts that conclude what words can be used in introduction of academic writing, what tense can be more suitable for the critical analysis and, classic collocation of conclusion sentences. Students can do better when they get more access to material across the web site. But teachers also begin to worry about if this open approach ends up teaching students to plagiarize through quoting, paraphrasing, and claiming creative combination of what others used. I find this article written by Dr. Christine Sabieh:
After reading,
guys, do you think that if the plagiarism is a common problem facing ELT? Is
there any good way to ensure plagiarism awareness? How can teacher keep balance
of teaching learning strategies by technology and keeping the “close imitation”
out of students’ mind and work?
