TASK 1

TASK 1

Website
http://a4esl.org/

Evaluation Guide

Question 1

This website focuses on  helping students in  learning English as their Second Language (ESL) . Besides that, this website contain an enormous numbers of exercises which was organized in certain categories such as quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles. In the websites, when the students key in the answer for Bilingual-test  , they will immediately know if the answers are correct or not, because the websites will calculate how many correct answer the students had done. For puzzle exercises, there are hints that indicate the answer, as for grammar exercise, to check the answer , the students can click on the button "answer". So the feedback is immediate and precise. In this websites, the grammar, vocabulary and crosswords exercises have different levels of proficiency , for example the grammar exercises are categorized int three categories "easy , medium and hard ", the same condition goes with the vocabulary and crosswords exercises. The only question which did not have any difficulty level is the "Billingual-test".

Question 2

The website is free and open to all people, regardless their age or gender. The service of this websites. It is free and open to public. Teacher can submit exercises to the websites as well, there a certain ways to built up questions and answer, then teachers or volunteers can submit the questions to be check by the websites owner, but currently the website is buzy so it will took a long time for the question to be approved. Students can just type the website name in the search engine and click it to open the websites, they do not need to sign up or sign in to get access to the questions.

Question 3

This websites does remind me when I was in secondary school, my English teacher use to give puzzle exercises on animal and ask us to finish it in time. Usually my teacher would make it like a competition between 4 to 5 groups of students. Besides that, the grammar exercises also make me reminiscence about my past self study, the teacher gives us an additional grammar worksheets and it is a kind of drilling exercise with a tremendous number of objective grammar questions related to past, present and perfect tense. 

Question 4

There are some aspects of the questions that can be consider advantages to the website when compare to actual textbook/workbook. The first one is that, teachers can select various categories of grammar to text the students with and the teacher can make their own question from the websites rather than searching for the suitable question or worksheet to suit  topic that they teach. Besides that, answering the question on the websites is more fun and interactive because they are sound included if the answers are correct and wrong. Moreover, using the websites, the students can conduct self-study rather than hoping the correct answer from the teacher.

Question 5

In this websites, there are a lot of drilling and understanding of grammar involves, One theory that can be related closely to this website is the behaviorist theory. As informed,the approaches in behaviorist theories include tutorials, drill and practice, behavioral simulations, and programmed instruction. An approach that combines all these teaching strategies into one "system" is called an "integrated learning system". Due to exercises in the websites that involves students to answer the question in number of exercises is consider drilling, therefore fossilization of grammar structure will occur in students understanding, and therefore it is consider one of the behaviorist theory.This theory focuses more on habit formation, therefore dialogue and drills are focuses on the learning, but in this websites, there are no dialogues involves, so the focuses is on drills. This is called ope-rant conditioning. The response for correct answer give positive reinforcement and negative answer give negative reinforcement. Therefore students who make mistakes in the websites can immediately know that they are wrong and will make correction. 

Question 6

The potential of English language learning from the website is very high, this is due to the fact that the exercises in the website cover many aspect of English language such as grammar and vocabulary. Although it did not touch on the pronunciation aspect, this websites will teach the students a lot about using the correct grammar and knowing the right grammar structures. Plus, exercises like puzzle and flash will give students a more interactive way of doing exercises, although this website does not cover all the aspect of English language, it is still potentially able to to teach the English language to the students.

Question 7

Yes I am interested in using this website in my future works, due to the aspect that a lot of exercises in various of style are available, and the work of all the teachers all over is packed in the websites, and day by day the exercises keep increasing. It is free to access and the contain are available in various of category, plus I can key in my exercises to this website for not just my students but other students as well. This website is good enough and it will be a good use to the students as well as the teachers.

Question 1

Hello, my full name is Noor Aiman Bin Azmin Noor,  I am 22 years old, I am from Kuala Krai ,Kelantan.

I have 4 siblings, I am staying with my mother since my parents divorced 5 years ago. I am a TESL student in UiTM. I am currently in Part 7.

Question 2

In terms of computer skills, i think i am in the novice level. I know how to work my laptop but I have not much knowledge other computer softwares. But I am a gamer, so i do know some key shortcuts.

Question 3

I have a few computer softwares that I am familiar with such as Powerpoint, Words , Google Chrome, Disk Defragment and Disk Cleanup.

Besides that, I also have experienced in using hard-wares such as printers, scanner and mouse.

Question 4
So far that i can think of, I do some e-learning through watching youtube videos, listening to speeches and talk in youtube.

Question 5
I have not my practicum yet, so i have no experiences in using technology to teach.

Question 6
In my opinion, using technology in language learning is very interesting and fun, they are so easy to organize and saves time, this is because everything is prepared and the teacher just need to click one by one. Besides that,quizzes and test is more interesting through computer.

Question 7
In this course, I expected that I should be able to learn and be aware of a lot of ways in teaching language through technology and I would want to be aware of more teaching and learning websites.

Question 8
 The title of my Academic Exercise is  "Relationship between Reading anxiety and language anxiety in terms of gender among students in SMK X in Shah Alam". I chose this topic because I have been hearing students being anxious in answering English Reading Comprehension questions and test. The topic is debatable depending by looking at gender,which gender is affected by language anxiety and reading anxiety .And also i will be looking at the if the reading anxiety is related to language anxiety.