Evaluation of the ELL site

Name of the site: English Listening Language.

Site's URL: http://www.englishlistening.com/

Author (s): Lidget Green

Last Update: unknown

Objective of the site: the main purpose of the site is providing online language practice on listening.

Skills the site builds:Listening.

Scope of audience: Worldwide

Target level: Pre-Intermediate

Sensory input: Poorly

Feedback: No feedback.

Interactivity: None

Communicativeness: None.

Design and construction

Content: 2 seconds. (Practically nothing worthwhile or interesting is on this site.)

Revisitavility:The site does not specify the date when it was first posted.

Appearance: Average. (While the site has a functional look and no major flaws in appearance, it is either plain or somewhat marred by slight design flaws.)

Navigation: Fairly easy (Generally clear navigational aids and usually quick and easy to find pages.)

Load speed:Fast (The site loads faster than most pages, or it may load surprisingly fast despite having several prominent graphics.)

Description of the site: The web site English Listening Language is site created for ESL/EFL learners whose learners level of English proeficiency is pre- intermediate. The site offers some written questions( this question do not supply any feedback) and passagges in which the learners can develope their listening skills. Besides, It does not provide any grammar explanation.

What we like about the site: we like that the author of this site highlights the benefits of developing listening skill and the characteristics of their recording such as: the duration of the recording, it also gives a brief description of the persons involved in “the passage”.

What we don't like about the site:This webpage is just focused on listening. It has no instructions, so it’s quite difficult to follow what the learner needs to do, it also provides an option to choose the level of the learner but it does not work at all. Besides, the site offers many topics with recordings and only one of them can be heard. Personally we did not like this page because it does not work with the 4 skills of English and it does not offer any feedback to learners.

ESL/EFL Pedagogical implications of the site: The site is helpful for learners to develop the listening skill through passages of real people speaking English and using native expressions such as: slangs and idioms which help them to be more fluent and acquire more vocabulary.

Evaluation score for

Content usefulness: 1/6
Interface design: 1/4
Our overall evaluation grade: 3/10