The name of the page is: VOANews.com
URL of the website is: http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/
The author was: Willis Conover (1920-1996)
Objetive of the site: This page was created with the purpose of provide information and give a communication service about news around the world; also, this page offers the visitors develop the four skills on english by interacting with the activities presented in the site, which are adapted to the level of the student. Students can find information about politics, economy and where they can improve their vocabulary and grammar while they read or listen the news.
Skills site builds: Grammar, reading, listening, vocabulary and cultural knowledge.
Objective: The main objective of the website is to present informaion to the visitors and keep them on about American politics and its projection to the wold.
Scope of the audience: Worldwide, because it can be found in several countries and languages.
Target level: Biginners intermediated and advanced. It has a link where visitors can read and practice about the English language with programs, activities, teaching communities and interactive learning.
Sensory input: Effectively.
Feedback: Non-intelligent error feedback.
Interactivity: People can input their comments and opinions about the news they read.
Communicativeness: On line communicativeness, visitors can get in contact via on line with the website.
Context: It has a good motivation.
Content: An hour or more, because the different news are presented in an interesting way and some of them show pictures and videos.
Revisitability: Once a day or more.
Appearance: Excellent.
Navigation: Fairly easy.
Load speed: Fast.
Technical (HTML) quality: Problem free.
Brief description of the site: It is an interesting place to find news, that helps students and visitors to improve their English. The description of the site can be advantages for people who visit this site; because it contains several links about interactive learning English activities. It is very interesting and it explains the whole content of the page. This website ha something that catch the attention of the viewers (colors, images, videos, etc.) in order to they can be interested on the information and learning English activities.
What I like about the website: What it makes an interesting site is people from different target levels around the world could improve their English through some articles, readings, listening, videos and practices.
What I did not like about the website: What this webpage does not have attractive for the viewers and the presentation of the topics inside in order to get the attention of the visitors. One disadvantage can be it presents a lot of different information in the main page, and it may be considered overloaded.
EFL/ESL Pedagogical implications of the site: The effectivity of the published links goes with the purpose and the objectives of the page. All the links have enough information of a specific topic; also, they have strategies or others things that visitors can use.
Evaluation score for:
Content usefulness: 6/6
Interface design: 4/4
General evaluation: 10/10
URL of the website is: http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/
The author was: Willis Conover (1920-1996)
Objetive of the site: This page was created with the purpose of provide information and give a communication service about news around the world; also, this page offers the visitors develop the four skills on english by interacting with the activities presented in the site, which are adapted to the level of the student. Students can find information about politics, economy and where they can improve their vocabulary and grammar while they read or listen the news.
Skills site builds: Grammar, reading, listening, vocabulary and cultural knowledge.
Objective: The main objective of the website is to present informaion to the visitors and keep them on about American politics and its projection to the wold.
Scope of the audience: Worldwide, because it can be found in several countries and languages.
Target level: Biginners intermediated and advanced. It has a link where visitors can read and practice about the English language with programs, activities, teaching communities and interactive learning.
Sensory input: Effectively.
Feedback: Non-intelligent error feedback.
Interactivity: People can input their comments and opinions about the news they read.
Communicativeness: On line communicativeness, visitors can get in contact via on line with the website.
Context: It has a good motivation.
Content: An hour or more, because the different news are presented in an interesting way and some of them show pictures and videos.
Revisitability: Once a day or more.
Appearance: Excellent.
Navigation: Fairly easy.
Load speed: Fast.
Technical (HTML) quality: Problem free.
Brief description of the site: It is an interesting place to find news, that helps students and visitors to improve their English. The description of the site can be advantages for people who visit this site; because it contains several links about interactive learning English activities. It is very interesting and it explains the whole content of the page. This website ha something that catch the attention of the viewers (colors, images, videos, etc.) in order to they can be interested on the information and learning English activities.
What I like about the website: What it makes an interesting site is people from different target levels around the world could improve their English through some articles, readings, listening, videos and practices.
What I did not like about the website: What this webpage does not have attractive for the viewers and the presentation of the topics inside in order to get the attention of the visitors. One disadvantage can be it presents a lot of different information in the main page, and it may be considered overloaded.
EFL/ESL Pedagogical implications of the site: The effectivity of the published links goes with the purpose and the objectives of the page. All the links have enough information of a specific topic; also, they have strategies or others things that visitors can use.
Evaluation score for:
Content usefulness: 6/6
Interface design: 4/4
General evaluation: 10/10
