We start this unit by talking about the benefits of using technology in classrooms. There is an infinite number of language apps that teachers and students can use as part of their teaching or learning resources.
Brown and Lee (Chap. 12, pp. 237-256), talk about how technology has immersed in the area of education over the years, acknowledging that the use of technology for "language learning began in the 1060s" and which is referred as CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning).
The development of CALL can be seen in three stages: behavioristic CALL, communicative CALL, and integrative CALL (Warschauer and Healey, 2009). To touch a little bit on how these stages of CALL were used, we can see that in the 1970s, behavioristic CALL was only used in universities and utilized as "a mechanical tutor" for language learning. Communicative CALL continued to be used in the 1980s "for skill practice but with more emphasis on communicative use of language, employing non-drill activities." And the last stage, integrative CALL, "began in the 1990s with the development of the World Wide Web," known as the internet.