Session 6: Evaluation: Reflection on Hubbard's paper (1988)

Hubbard’s paper (1988) discusses a very different approach to CALL courseware evaluation, unlike checklists form or questionnaire form of courseware evaluation available in textbooks, in the form of a flexible framework from which teachers can develop their own evaluation courseware for CALL procedures from which consists of three major sections of the framework: operational description, teacher fit, and learner fit. The paper also addresses the use of the framework to evaluate courseware as a closure to the discussion.
This framework is not as complex as it may seem but I must agree that Hubbard does give a thorough discussion of the framework. In a sense, this framework, as Hubbard explains clearly, offers teachers with great freedom and control of creating their own way of evaluation to fit in their own classrooms. It allows teachers using the package as a leading tool to tailormake a scheme that fosters effective teaching. How considerate to teachers. Thus there is no way of pressuring teachers that CALL courseware evaluation is misleading or limiting what teachers can do. But giving teachers more exploration.