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Phonology is one of the core fields that compose the discipline of linguistics, which is defined as the scientific study of language structure. One way to understand what the subject matter of phonology is, to contrast it with other fields within linguistics. A very brief explanation is that phonology is the study of sound structure in language, which is different from the study of sentence structure (syntax) or word structure (morphology), or how languages change over time (historical linguistics). A common characterization of the different between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics deals with “actual” physical sounds as they are manifested in human speech, and concentrates on acoustic waveforms, formant values, measurements of duration measured in milliseconds, of amplitude and frequency, or in the physical principles underlying the production of sounds. On the other hand, phonology is an abstract cognitive system dealing with rules in a mental grammar: principles of subcon...

Abstraction  The development of science and technology achieved nowadays has contributed to the advance in language teaching and learning. Language teachers utilize computers and the Internet with their software and facilities for the purpose of teaching and learning activities in the classrooms. The Internet offers a wide range of authentic and interesting materials can facilitate student-centered activities. There are some barriers to its implementation as well as the possibility of the negative impact it has on the students. CALL has alternatives to be adapted in Indonesia. CALL may offer for language teaching and learning activities, and find out the advantages and disadvantages of using it. The next, it will also see the barriers to its implementation in Indonesian classrooms, and finally some suggestions are proposed for CALL to be implemented in Indonesia. Key Words Language learning, CALL, Traditional CALL, ‘generic’ resources A. Pendahuluan Perkembangan il...