Students who learn more slowly can use them for remediation by going over the material more slowly. Students who are ahead of the class can use them to accelerate learning and for enrichment. Control over language input . Then they can find a human being to tell them what's wrong. Students often get lost in a sea of small print crowded onto a page.
Repetition plays an important role in any theory of language learning.
The computer doesn't lose patience with students, or get angry, or play favorites. Learners create hypotheses about how the target language works, and the computer can provide a safe environment in which to test these hypotheses. 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 explanatory text, to sound, to images, and to video.