Theory-Driven CALL and the Development Process. Computer Assisted Language Learning by Levy,M. (1997)

In the article, Levy ( 1997) draws from a number of the theoritical frameworks underlying CALL pprojects and findings of CALL survey to explore the nature of theory-driven CALL.
Other research shows that CALL should be theory-driven (Garrett;1988, Liou,1994) .They stated that CALL courseware development should always led by theoretical motivation.
According to the findings, the 'formalists' believe that completed research is necessary for sucessful CALL Development. They tend to make theory the starting point of project. On the other hand, 'procedualists' believe research need not to be completed right before the start of the development process but can be integrated into that process and tend to make discoveries as they go along.
I think the criteria for the CALL development approiateness is based on the proper development of a CALL enviroment. In other words, the language learning needs to be integrated with a computer-aided( CAL) methodology and combined with a 'communicative competence' model of SLA. In othe words, the most fundalmental issue in the field of CALL is the notion of 'fit' is relvant more so in language pedagogy.
Levy, M. (1997). Theory-Driven CALL and the Development Process. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 10(1), 41-56.