网络语言学习的前身是计算机辅助教学(CAI)和计算机辅助语言学习(CALL),是一种基于互联网或是局域网的新型学习方式。CALL发展到今天已经经历了约半个世纪,从很大程度上影响了语言教学的发展和变革。在此基础上发展起来的基于网络的语言教学,彻底变革了传统的语言教与学的模式,此后必将成为最有发展潜力的新型外语教学方式。 The predecessor of online language learning is Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) and Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL), which is a new learning method based on Internet or LAN. CALL development has gone through about half a century today, to a large extent affected the development of language teaching and change. Based on this, the web-based language teaching developed completely revolutionized the traditional model of language teaching and learning and will surely become the most promising new foreign language teaching method after that.