Its focus is on learning instead of teaching, it has 2 important features: bidirectional and individualized learning. Interactive in CALL means feedbacks are given after learners' inputs are assessed by the system to help learners improve their language competency.
A good example would be
http://www.esl-lab.com/
(In this page you can practise listening skills, there are a quiz for each recording, matching activities, multiple choice and mix-up sentences, you can check your answers online and it also gives you the correct ones, there is also the option of see the transcript).
http://www.englishforum.com/cgi-bin/00/messages/s/mess.pl?view_records=1&ID=*&uid=pub
(This is a forum for english learners, where you can communicate, you also have exercises, the idiom and quotation of the day, recommendations of books and dictionaries)
A bad example of CALL is
http://alice.pandorabots.com/
(In this page you can chat with ALICE, a robot, it can be useful for beginers because sometimes the conversation can be a little incoherent. This kind of pages are not consider to belong to the CALL approach)
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CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication ):
It is defined as communication that occur via computer-mediated formats (instant messages, emails, chat rooms) or text-based interaction.
Here there are some good examples of language chat rooms
http://chat.overpal.com/
http://www.mansioningles.net/chat.htm
http://www.sharedtalk.com/
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(I really liked this page because it has many exercises and give you hints for the correct answers)
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