Clicknlearn.net

Introduction

This website eventually makes teaching and learning in the second language more interactive.This technology is suitable for all language teachers (English, French and Spanish) and all levels of students.This website brings in the idea of interactive learning in language classrooms.The website provides an overview of contents and activities available accordingly based on the age groups,units,lexical contents, grammatical contents and cultural references. Indeed the website also provides a brief guideline for teachers and students to read before using the webpage. This website also provides printable documents where teachers can print the materials or tasks and use them to teach.



Instructions

How do teachers and students go about using this website?? Don't worry just press the video guide below:



I hope this vidoe can help teachers and students in exploring and using this website.

Additionally there is an example  below:Just click! the link then the menu button and then start exploring!!

http://acacia.pntic.mec.es/agip0002/auro/inicio.html

The advantages gained from this website are:

1. interactive
2. teachers can vary their teaching methods
3. teachers can teach English in a more interesting way
4. the contents included in the website are well organised 
5. it encourages interactive learning since most of the activities are on a flow (no clicking in betweens)
6. it makes teachers life easy as it prepares teaching materials like exercises and some of the exercises are focused to one point like the' past tense was and were exercise'.
7. do have contextualisation
8. does provide feedbacks

The disadvantages of using this website are:

1. it has to many written text on it
2. there is week balance between audio and visual,to much visual and less audio
3.  feedbacks provided are not in a good way, a lot of feedbacks are written
4. poor management in designing like some activities teachers or students cant go back
5. no any helping or guiding sources for students while doing an activity
6. some visual images are in proper or does not really reflect the intended items
7. the instructions are mostly on Spanish so might be difficult for other language learners
8. to many unwanted sound effects which may be distracting
9. overload of texts
10. some games are quit demanding as it requires students to read a lot
11. not all students prefer to read an overload of visual texts on the computer

Recommendations

Teachers can use this website for introducing vocabulary or key terms relating to the subject they want to teach. Teachers can also use this website to create a context for their teaching. Teachers can use this website for grammar practices as it allows teachers to print the worksheets. On the contrary, students can use this website to self asses their language level since  they can do the exercises and check the answers themselves.

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