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lunes, 6 de diciembre de 2010

Evaluation of ESL Web Site


Name of the site: English-Zone.com... the BEST English-Learner's site on the 'Net!

Site's URL: http://english-zone.com/index.php

Author (s): Kaye Mastin Mallory

Last Update: N/A (not available)

Objective of the site: the objective of the site is to provide a lot of exercises of grammar, reading, writing, vocabulary and other interest things related to the English.

Skills the site builds: Grammar, reading, writing and vocabulary.

Objective: the most important objective of the site is to provide on-line activities, and links to some resources of interest.

Scope of audience: Worldwide

Target level: Basic level to advanced level

Sensory input: Poorly

Feedback: non-intelligent error feedback

Interactivity: Some

Communicativeness: None

Context: Some

Content: 10 minutes.

Revisitability: Once a year maybe. The date of the first post is not showed.

Appearance: 
Good. (The site makes above average use of all the design elements but is not outstanding.)

Navigation: Easy (Very clear navigational aids and easy and quick to find specific pages.)


Load speed:
 Fast (The site loads faster than most pages, or it may load surprisingly fast despite having several prominent graphics.)

Technical (HTML) quality: this site load faster in Opera web browser than in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. (Internet connection: Movistar and Digitel BAM), we did not test this site in Internet Explorer and Safari.


Brief description of the site:  the site English-Zone.com is a very useful page to ESL/EFL learners because it has a lot of exercises for beginners and these exercises are very useful to practice and reinforce the knowledge. The web page provides a lot of online exercises (grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing) and link to resources of interest.


What we liked about the site:
 we liked about this site is that you can practice and reinforce your knowledge, although you are intermediate or advanced level learner, or only to refresh the knowledge.

What we don´t like about the site:  we did not like about this site is that there is a lot of exercises that you have to pay a membership to access them. The site does not have an index to guide you in the page. It has a poor main page (it does not have images, graphics etc.) so, to some people do not call the attention. It provides a few lessons.

ESL/EFL Pedagogical implications of the site: the site is helpful to ESL/EFL learners who want to know how good is their grammar, vocabulary, writing and reading comprehension. 

Evaluation score for 
Content usefulness: 4/6
Interface design: 1/4

Our overall evaluation grade: 5/10
  

César Flórez & José Aular 

2 comentarios:

  1. It looks like an interesting site! and with your evaluation I can see the good and bad side of it! Well done guys! =)

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  2. Good job guys!! I think you have worked very hard... This site looks interesting!!

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