During week two, the presentation was continued by group three until group nine. All groups present varieties of application and websites that we can use for the learning process. Group three introduced a website that could assist the learners called ‘ESOL Courses’ (www.esolcourses.com). This website is for the enhancement of listening skill where learners can improve their listening skill through various activities such as quizzes and games and it covers a lot of topics and issues too. Besides, this website is suitable for all levels starting from beginners until advanced, thus, we think that learners will learn a lot from this website because learners can practice listening to specific information and learn some new useful vocabulary.
For the fourth group, Husna and her groupmates had chosen freereadingprogram.com websites. freereadingprogram.com is a free website that helps the teacher to set up online classroom activities. In this website, it provides an effective program for students to improve their reading skills and it also offers activities for kindergarten to Grade 6 students on reading program. However, there are few limitations in this website which are there is no full audio for the reading passage, the audio is limited to only certain words in the passage and the structure of the questions is not organized. Besides that, another limitation for this websites are this classroom activity does not provide a summary exercise for the student’s feedbacks are only given for a brief time, students cannot see the correct answers of the questions.
For group five, Afifah and her groupmates successfully presented on ESLvideo.com website. This website offers free ESL resources, lessons, and activities for learners and teachers of English. The teachers are welcome to build a library of favourites, assign quizzes, and view students’ scores in the quizzes given and it covers all levels starting from beginner until advanced. In this website, it also offers different topics and it talks about current issues. We think that this website is very useful because it will help learners a lot in learning and they can also add new knowledge and awareness about current issues that happen nowadays. Hence, for this website, we think that it meets all the criteria and evaluation of CALL appropriateness.
Other groups that presented during week three are group six and seven. Group six had presented about I speak apps. This app was made by MULTICON INDIA and the focus is on enhancing speaking skills analysing your recorded speech. What we like about this app is that it is free and does not require an internet connection. It is very interesting as it attracts the learners to speak more without feeling anxious especially for those who lack confidence. Furthermore, the software is applicable to all levels as it comprises of various levels of assessment. It is also very convenient and user-friendly as learners can easily access the software without having to go through complex steps. We are ready to try this apps during our learning process later even though it has some limitation such as it is not yet supported for PC and Apple products and the questions are random and there is no feedback provided from the application.
On the following days of the week, the presentation continued by Group seven. They had presented about English Central website. This website is divided into four steps which are watch, learn, speak and go live. We think that this website meets all the requirement of all the CALL appropriateness since all the features cover everything and this website does provide feedback for its users. Besides, the web background of the website is also clear and interesting and the features on the website are easy to access. The unique about this website is that the learner can go one to one live with the tutor that they had chosen and they can get immediate feedback from the tutor. Hence, it also suitable for all level of learners starting from beginner until advance.
The presentation then continued by group eight. Group eight found a website called Using English for Academic Purposes (www.uefap.com) for reading skill. We believe that reading skill is the easiest skill to be assessed as it only involves reading the text, understanding and answering the question regarding the text. This website provides activities such as reading text and writing the answer, reconstructing the text and note-taking. Moreover, this website is suitable for learners who want to improve the skill of self-taught as this website does not require teacher’s supervision. However, the downside of this website is it does not have level scale, so it might be difficult for learners to find the suitable text according to their level.
For group nine, they introduced a website named Cambridge English Write and Improve which it is a free service for learners of English to practise their writing skill. In our opinion, this is a great website because it offers a range of tasks to choose from, covering many different topics. Thus, learners can write on that topic in English and get instant feedback to improve their written English. There is a downside for this website which is learners can use the questions that are only stated on the website. However, we strongly believe that all websites and apps have their own strength and weakness and it depends on us which one we would like to use in order to enhance our learning skills.
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