Task 3

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

Being a teacher, there's always the need to make sure that our teaching materials are beneficial to the students. Since students come from different level of proficiency, we (future teachers) always need to reevaluate our materials in order to achieve our learning outcome. In this aspect, if we want to introduce or use courseware, websites or other materials in our lesson, we need to assess it before we bring it to our classroom. When we evaluate all the materials, we will know whether it is suitable or not for our students because what might work in one class is not necessarily going to be the same in another class. That is why it is important to evaluate our courseware, websites and materials.

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

If only I discover Hot Potatoes before I went for my practicum! Unfortunately I only managed to learn the existence of it during the final semester. The wonderful thing about learning English from Hot Potatoes JCloze is that they have a clue or hint for each blank since pencil paper type of cloze passage doesn't have the same feature. Plus, answering the cloze passage using JCloze is more interactive and entertaining because of the colours, visuals, and also the instant feedbacks. From there, it gets the student to enjoy doing the questions and also increase their interests in learning English.