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| Interactive JavaScript Quizzes for ESL Students |
| Reviewed By Urai Salam |
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| You can also read this review at: http://www.angelfire.com/id/uraisalamr/ideas.html Organizer : Charles I. Kelly Writers : ESL Teachers around the world Address : http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/js/ Description. Interactive JavaScript Quizz is a collection of Quizzes maintained by Charles I. Kelly, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan. These Quizzes are written by ESL teachers around the world in the form of plain text & then converted info JavaSricpt by Charles Kelly. This site consists of 100 quizzes, and each quiz contains 20 to 100 questions. This site is mainly used to practice grammar, vocabulary and mechanic writing. The grammar quiz covers regular/irregular verbs, preposition, verb forms, question forms, sentence combining, modifiers, adverb often confused, and the like. Similarly, the Vocabulary quiz covers, antonym/synonym, homonym, word category, idiom with parts of body, phrasal verbs, etc; while the quiz for mechanic writing covers like punctuation & capitalization. There are two main forms of Quizzes in terms of how to play them: namely, multiple choices and matching. Multiple choice The multiple choice quizzes are very simple. The students just need to visit this site and click on the material they are going to practice. When the quiz appears, the information about the quiz comes up like the number of question, the level of difficulty, the key answer if necessary, the writer, copyright year, and the skill which is drilled. If the students want to start playing, they can work on the first question by clicking on the right answer among other distracters. There will be a very fast response from computer to confirm whether the answer is right or wrong. And, there is progressing score in percentage at the bottom of screen. Matching Sentences This kind of activity is also very simple. The quiz space is divided into two columns, the left- hand column is the question and the right-hand one is the answer. What students should do is to type a letter before a numbered question in the left-hand column. If the students want to check their works just click on ³ check answer ³ and if they give up working just click on ³ answer ³. Evaluation In terms of technology, Interactive Javascript Quizz is great and cheap resources for language learning. It is cheap because we can work with it by free. Moreover, it is easy to access since it is online. We can access it wherever and whenever we want. In terms of language learning and language teaching, online sources offer several advantages. One of the obvious advantages is that online learning ( the Internet ) can enhance student motivation (Warschauer, 1995). The student feel that they are independent and be self advanced, Similarly, in teacher side, Interactive Javascript Quizz is very positive to build up collaborative work among ESL teachers around the would. In this site, Charles I. Kelly provides instructions how to write similar quizzes. This means that all ESL teachers who have access to the Internet can participate to this collaboration by sending their quizzes. In other words, they can produce quizzes which suit their students¹ need. The major short coming that I see from Interactive Javascript Quizz is that the interaction between computer and the users is very little. There is no useful feedback when the students finish their quiz, no confirmation what students should do if they gain certain score, and so on. This shortcoming, however, may be a challenge for ESL teachers & net designers to build up a teaching material database which is relevant to these quizzes. Conclusion In short, Interactive Javascript Quizz is vast resources for students to practice. Even though communicative skills are not maintained here, this site is apparently worth visiting. It depends on how teachers make use of these quizzes integratedly in to their classroom process as Chapelle (1997) says that we need to ³ view CALL through the lense of the classroom researcher Š². If the teachers can bring online resources into classroom process or assign their students to do in their own time, they (the resources) may become great teaching learning materials. References Chapelle, Carol, (1997). Call in the year 2000:Still in search of research paradigm? Language Learning and Technology Vol.1 No.1 July, pp 19-43. Or available at: http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/vol1num1/chapelle/default.html Warschauer, M. (1995). Heterotopias, panopticons, and Internet discourse. University of Hawaii working papers in ESL 14(1). Or available at: http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/heterotopias.html |
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