My Reflection

Basically, for this entry, I need to give my reflection regarding:-

1. Why do you think evaluation of CALL courseware, websites, materials etc important?

In my own personal opinion, it is very important for teachers and educators to evaluate any CALL courseware, websites, materials and etc that he or she is going to use for learning. The reasons why I think that it is important for us to evaluate all these because to determine whether the CALL materials are learner fit or suitable to the students level of proficiency in that particular class that we are going to teach. Not only that, evaluation is important because we can see whether the CALL courseware or website that we use is able to give positive impact to the students, where the students apply the knowledge that they get in class and bring it outside of the classroom. Meaningful learning is when students are able to relate what they had learnt in class with the real life situation that they had undergone. When teachers or educators evaluate the CALL materials, the authenticity of the materials is very important so that students did not think that what they are learning in class is useless. Not only that, it is important to evaluate whether the CALL materials are practical enough (in the sense that it is easy for teachers and students to use it). What is the use of superb CALL materials but they are not easy to use and to implement?.These are the reasons why it is important for us as educators to evaluate the CALL courseware, website and materials from my point of views.

2. How do you think Hot Potatoes JCloze may help your students learn English?

Yesterday,during CALL class was the first time I used the Hot Potatoes JCloze in order to create English exercises. It was hard at first but then,it was very interesting to me once I got to know how to use it.In my opinion, Hot Potatoes JCloze might be able to help my students in the sense that,when my students want to fill in the blanks with answers,they can get the hint by click on the '?' button. Then they will try to guess the answers (provided they know and still remember what they had learnt) until they get the correct answer to fill in the blank. For example, if the blank requires them to give the preposition of direction as the answer, they will keep on guessing the correct prepositions until they get the correct answer.This will encourage the students to think and never give up trying. Not only that, with interesting text, appropriate font, layouts as well as exercises that suite their level, InsyALLAH, Hot Potatoes JCloze may help my students to learn English. Not only that, by using Hot Potatoes JCloze, it will encourage students - centered learning as well as to give opportunity to students to use technology for learning. This is definately will interest them more to learn compare to chalk and talk method.