Opportunities for real communication with native speakers of the target language. Control over language input. Our students need computer skills to survive in the job market. Also very important Word processing . There is evidence that students write more and revise more when they word-process their texts.
Repetition plays an important role in any theory of language learning.
I've seen programs with declining enrollments that were revived by a lab. Advantages of hypertext. In a book, words are linked together one after another in a linear fashion. With a computer, text can be linked in a non-linear fashion to other text, to sound, to images, and to video. This power allows learners to bring up multimedia links to enhance their understanding of the target language.