Popular websites for teaching,learning and researching

In the age of technology people are getting so much attached to use technology to become more beneficial as it is  time consuming .in case of teaching and learning technology is getting popular day by day.nowadays websites are playing an important  role for everyone like teachers,students,researchers. Students can practice vocabulary,grammar and many more by using some effective websites.A teacher can find possible materials in these website or they can find the format suitable for his/her class .It is very much beneficial for researchers as many websites include many facilities . In this essay I am going to uphold some of these website which are quite popular among the users and describe their strength and weakness ,the objectives and their effectiveness and what it actually resembles for.

Word smart.com

Word smart is one of the website which is very popular among the learners.this website basically designed for the learners and focus on vocabulary learning.

Objective:The main objective of the site is to teach the learners new vocabularies providing option and possible meaning.

Effectiveness:This is an effective site for learning because it teaches vocabulary not seldom but simpler to harder one,so that learner do not feel lost in first glance.

Strength: 

1.      One of the important strength of this site is it provide a progress report so that learner get aware what score they are doing

2.      It also provide learners performance board of the learner

3.      It also contain points .its mean learner can gather points as they progress.

4.      It contain the list of top scorer

Weakness:

1.      One of the main problem of this site is it didn't provide the correct answer if learner do mistakes but is only show the mistake words learner do.

2.      Another important weakness is time.it provide less time think about the possible meaning

3.      Many words are not recognizable for the learner

4.      The higher level learner reach they have to buy those

Teaching/testing: Instead of focusing both it only focus on testing.

Lextutor

Objective : The main objective of this site is to help the learners ,researcher and teachers to use the specific English word and learn vocabulary .

Effectiveness:  It is a complex and multi task site through which people (learner,researcher and teacher) can be benefited as it helps in Frequency analysis  Range analysis ,Vocabulary Tests and many more.though its complex site but once we understand how to use it ,we will know how beneficial the site is.

Strength:

·         One of the strength is it help for getting an overview of the frequency profile of a text

·         It provide vocabulary test which contains level,

·         There are several vocabulary tests available, including the Vocabulary Levels Test, Vocabulary Size Test, the Word Associates Test, a test of the first 1,000 words, and a checklist test.

Weakness: As it is a online teaching site sometimes the answer can be incorrect .

Crossword puzzles (http//itesj.org/cw

Objective :The main objective of this site is to help the ELS student to learn the vocabulary and grammar providing  materials for ESL/EFL teachers  and learners for example  online textbooks, games and activity. For students there is a large collection of activities including quizzes and crossword puzzles. This paper will present an overview of what is available on these websites.

Effectiveness: It is an effective online site because it works as a online textbook to learn from any site of the world.Students can participate in varieties of activities including quizzes and crossword puzzles.this website also includes ongoing projects that teachers can use or contribute to and online textbooks.

Strength

1.      the first strength of this site is website is it provide lots of variety for learning which is a good thing as there are many website which only provide  similar activity for learning  vocabularies.

2.      teacher or learner can choose options on which they want to work on.(it can be food animals classroom objects or any common word)

3.      it is accessible for all

4.      it also gibes feedback after every activity.

5.      it provide hints so it is effective for learning

Weakness:

·         though it is helpful cannot encourage through activities what a teacher can.

·         cannot explain the feedback briefly  (in case of grammar)

·          only focus on testing

Teaching /testing:Instead of focusing both it only focus on testing

So it can be said that the the importance of those website cannot be ignored as it somehow manages to take the place of a teacher for the students.Teachers  and researchers are also are also getting benefited  as it works as a resource of all they need.