Of CALL Evaluation and Hot Potatoes

Good Day.


1. What do you think evaluation of CALL courseware, websites, materiasl etc important?

It is part and parcel of life to evaluate, critics and comment things. We tend to seek for perfection though we know that nothing is perfect other than Him. The same goes to teaching and learning process. As an educator, we have to provide the students with proper knowlegde and latest information as well as latest technology. As we know, technology grows everyday. Thus, it is important to evaluate CALL courseware, websites and materials in fulfilling the students' hunger for learning. By doing this, we are able to determine whether the courseware/website/material is suitable or outdated for the students to use in their learning process.

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

In the world where information is just a click away, I think it is very important to inculcate technology in learning. Hot Potatoes JCloze is one of the technology that can be utilized in helping the students to learn and get involve in learning English. It can also improve the teaching strategies and boost up the students' interest in doing English exercises. The students will get excite as they are able to get immediate feedbacks. With good colors combination, praising, clues and marks given, drilling activity will be interesting as they can explore the world of learning by themselves. The negative and positive reinforcement given will somehow motivates the students to acquire the knowlegde. Other than that, it is handy to both the students and the teacher. They are not required to bring textbook, exercise book etc. What they have to do is just got to the computer lab and start doing the exercises. Thus, the teachers will have to only facilitate the students as they are exploring the teaching and learning on their own. This can be one of the fundamental ways in producing future generations who are capable to learn not via the spoon feed processes only.