Normalisation of Bax in the Saudi Kingdom

     

        Stephan Bax argues that, "Our aim should be to attain a state of `normalisation' in which the technology is invisible and truly integrated"
Through the reading of the article, Stephan Bax wrote about how we can use technology in our daily life specifically sing a computer in language teaching. Stephan has identified a possible future plan for CALL. CALL was divided into three phases, which are "behaviouristic", "communicative" and "integrative".The first, Behavioristic CALL, is the most plausible and would attract most agreement. But the other two categories are far less satisfactory.

     While I read the article, there is something stuck in my mind is the writer’s opinion that , the most clear way of defining the goal of CALL is by the concept of ‘normalisation’, which is relevant to any kind of technological innovation. I also came to know that Normalisation is the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognised as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. Like pen or shoes, they are all technologies that became normalised to the extent that we hardly even recognize them as technologies. In short, Normalisation is something that should be set as a goal to be accomplished.

     From what I have read, I knew that they identified a possible critical future agenda for CALL that normalisation asked for. Their aim can be the normalisation, in which CALL becomes invisible, Helping in the needs of students and teachers, and emerged into every teachers’ everyday practice. This will cause changes in technology, in the size, shape and position of the classroom computer, in attitudes, in approach and practice amongst teachers and learners.

     They also identified the means of achieving this goal. In this research, Stephen Bax argues that we need more in-depth ethnographic studies of individual environments to elucidate the relationship between the factors just mentioned. We also need action research in individual environments to identify barriers to normalisation and ways of over- coming them.

      In KSA schools, most of schools and university teach traditional way of teaching, but nowadays teachers started to use technological tools like: projects, smart bored , smart phones ...etc.However,  I think KSA still need some efforts to reach normalisation. Normalisation is possible in some of our Saudi context but not in all the places. We need time to apply it in all our schools. We should started from education system by providing technology in schools and encourage teacher to use it. Also, the student should be able to know how to use technology.

At the end, I think they will reached it by using technological in teaching such as: Power Points, projects, computers…etc.