I evaluated a website for you this week. I am very excited to tell you about this phenomenal experience for me.
First of all I started by looking for a website to evaluate the work. You know I usually post about ELT and young learners on my blog. For this reason, I was supposed to evaluate a website related to learning and teaching English by our instructor from university. I chose ESLGold to evaluate.
At first it seemes a bit boring in fact, but as I continued to evaluate, I realized that how useful it was.
While evaluating the website, I also had the opportunity to explore the website. And I got little tips on how to use this website appropriately for its purpose. Also, proceeding according to the form given to us by our instructor made it a little easier to study on this issue.
I used the form which was provided by our instructor to evaluate the website. It made this evaluation easier and it included the questions listed below.
1.Who authored the website? Is there any information about their qualifications or credentials?
1.The website is administered by ESLGold Teachers. There are eight teachers in charge of preparing content for this website. Each one has their own profile and they have academic information about themselves. If you want, you can get detailed knowledge about teachers and their experiences in their lives.
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Additionally, this website is a website that appeals to people of all ages, has appropriate content, is constantly updated and frequently visited.
2.What is the content of the website?
2.The website generally provides content related to English teaching, such as tests, quizzes, courses, videos, study guides for students of all ages. Especially those activities are provided, such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, Business English, vocabulary and TOEFL. Students can also find an ideal tutor to help them learn English one-on-one in this website.
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3.Who is the target audience?
3.The target audience that this website wants to reach is anyone who wants to learn English and also the teachers who want to use the materials which are provided by this website.
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4.What is the purpose of the website?
4.The purpose of this website is to teach people English in an entertaining way through videos, daily lessons and activities. Also this websites aims to provide free resources for teachers and students, all categorized by skill and level.
5.Is there a date that shows when the site has last been updated?
5.At the bottom of the website is a date for the latest update in 2017.
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6.Accuracy of the information- Are there any errors?
6.Because this website was prepared by experts in the field, no errors were made when the information was given. We can see that there is no error when we check a sub-tab of each tab on the site.
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7.Are there any broken links?
7.Some videos linked to the site are unavailable because these videos have been deleted from their source and there are broken links because the parts of the site are not updated.
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8.Are the images of high quality and appealing to the target audience?
8.When you click on the website, the pictures on the home page and the main tabs are loaded with high quality, but when website is checked in detail, it is noticed that some photos are downloaded at low quality. But all the photos appeal to the target audience.
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9.How can it be applied to EFL teaching?
9.Many of the contents on the website are correlated with teaching English. For this reason, we can use this site effectively by telling the students to use the website as a resource when giving an assignment, by watching the videos at the school during the course and by applying the quizzes and tests at the school.
Lastly, I would like to present you two recommendations;
One of them is that while you are going to work on a project which is based on websites, it will be very useful for you to use the website by evaluating it.
The other one is that you can check out the website where I learned a lot of useful information when writing this post, and I think it will be very helpful if you are interested in learning and teaching English.
Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, Picture 5, Picture 6, Picture 7 and Picture 8 are taken from the website which I evaluated.
You can visit the website just by clicking here.
The picture above is taken from here.
Thank you, Oğulcan Özdağ.
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