WEBSITE EVALUATION REPORT
Level of my learner :
VIII (second grade of high school)
Skill :
Subtopic : Nasredin and
the beggar
Topic to be taught :
Website to teach: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
Website
Evaluation
(Based on questions the class created):
We came up with this website because we
think this source is reliable and it has been applied in
According to us, learner’s fit is
the main criteria when we decided to take this website. One of learner’s
fits is level of competence and this website provides the several levels which
are appropriate to apply in the class especially for reading skill. Here, we
find that it also provides appropriates materials to teach a second grade of
senior high school. For example, the Nasreddin’s
story is very ideal in the age of second grade of senior high school. The story
is very interesting and easy to understand. This will help the students to get
more intention in reading. This websites has many more interesting topics in
reading materials so the teacher has many options to choose the material which
is proper to the learner’s characteristics. As result, the teacher doesn’t
have any difficulties to decide the material for his/her learner’s level
competence.
Here, we also think that this website is
reliable enough since it has the trusted author (The
Moreover, this website is very
practical. We can apply this into the class easily because we do not need
complicated media that we should use. In other word, we can apply this material
and download the material for the students in the second grade of senior high
school, since it can be printed easily by the teacher and will be copied to the
students. Our other opinion that covers the practicality is the students will
not find any difficulties in doing the task or activities, since the task is
ease to be done. Two examples of the task are multiple choices and fill in the
blanks. In addition, most of the vocabularies that are given to the students
are understandable.
Next our discussion covers the meaning
focus. The site is very consistent to use the target language in giving
instruction to the assignments. The instructions use simple and clear words so
that the students would not feel confused to do it. As we know the first
impression will influence students’ motivation to do all the tasks.
Language learning potential also become a reason why we choose this website. The assignments
have time limits to pressure students in completing tasks. It will provide
teacher information about how well students understand the passage in certain
time which show student’s competence in reading.
This can be feedback for teacher to upgrade the material for next meeting.
Somehow, this site benefits to the
teacher since that the material indirectly improve not only reading skill but
also writing. By using this site, also, the students adopt more knowledge in
grammar. For example, the assignment provide writing part which
provide grammar to write passive voice in reading text. From here, the teacher
can insert the new strategy to teach all skills.
We think that it is not really important
to have an up-dated site in order to take the material as long as the material
still can be used in most of the teaching. However, the up-dated site does not
guarantee that we will get good material to be applied to the students. In
other word, we have to consider the condition of the school itself, we mean, if
the site is up-dated but it is not downloadable then it will be useless.
Other thing that we do not think the
importance is authentically. We think that the conditions of every place are
different. Something that can be applied in a certain region or country is not
always can be applied in other place. Our opinion is this kind of material is
one of our sources, in other word; we will use the modified material. We also
felt that the material is used for developing the teachers’ knowledge in
order to create a new attractive way of teaching.