The Possiblity of Reaching Bax’s  Normilasation in our national context: Why is it possible? When is it possible/reached/achieved? How will it be reached?

In the article of Stephan Bax we found that he discussed the Normalisation. This concept is relevant to any kind of technological innovation and refers to the stage when technology becomes invisible, embedded in everyday practice and hence “normalized”.
Normalisation is therefore the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. CALL will reach this state when computers are used every day by language students and teachers as an integral part of every lesson, like a pen or a book. They will be completely integrated into all other aspects of classroom life, alongside coursebooks, teachers and notepads.
Most importantly, CALL will be normalized when computers are treated as always secondary to learning itself, when the needs of learners will be carefully analysed first of all, and then the computer used to serve those needs.Normalisation is therefore the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. CALL will reach this state when computers are used every day by language students and teachers as an integral part of every lesson, like a pen or a book. They will be completely integrated into all other aspects of classroom life, alongside coursebooks, teachers and notepads.Most importantly, CALL will be normalized when computers are treated as always secondary to learning itself, when the needs of learners will be carefully analysed first of all, and then the computer used to serve those needs.

Diffusion of innovations
How can normalization occur? We can summarize the probable progress of CALL towards normalization as follows:

1. Early adopters. A few teachers and schools adopt the technology out of curiosity.               2. Ignorance/skepticism. However, most people are skeptical, or ignorant of its existence.         3. Try once. People try it out but reject it because of early problems.                                         4. Try again. Someone tells them it really works. Then try again. They see it does in fact have relative advantage.                                                                                                                   5. Fear/awe. More people start to use it, but still there is (a) fear, alternating with (b) exaggerated expectations.                                                                                                        6. Normalising. Gradually it is seen as something normal.                                                           7. Normalisation. The technology is so integrated into our lives that it becomes invisible-‘normalized’.

     In Saudi Arabia most of the schools and universities follow the traditional way of teaching, but nowadays with all these development, many schools and universities improved their educational system, they started to use computers, smart boards and projectors in the classroom.

     We have identified a possible future agenda for CALL. Our aim can be the normalisation in which CALL finally becomes invisible, serving the needs of learners and integrated into every teachers’ everyday practice. It will require changes in technology, in attitudes, in approach and practice among teachers and learners.

     To achieve normalization in Saudi Arabia, we need to action research in individual environments to identify barriers to normalisation and ways of overcoming them.

      This will not be an easy process. However, if we take our aim to be normalisation, and then work for ways of achieving it efficiently, computers can finally achieve their proper place and true potential in the classroom.