Website Evaluation

The site I will analyze is located at hppt://www.esl-lab.com. This ESL listening Web site created by Randall Davis and helps ESL/EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self-grading quiz pages. The author has a master’s degree in TESL and worked in a variety of teaching and training positions and his one of the specialties is CALL. There are an email address and phone number to contact him. The content is really useful. As this site much focuses on listening comprehension and everyday conversation, there are a number of listening quizzes and video clips. All files are recorded by native speaker so they are reliable and factually. There are also resources for English teachers such as free printable worksheets. Actually there are some ads for TESL certificate, schools for adults, and so on. I’m not sure but it seems that they are pretty reliable companies.

I can’t find when the pages are last updated. I don’t think the content is up to date, but still they are working well and reliable.

This site is stimulating me at least, and I guess others may feel same as me because it provides enough information so gives feeling that if I am done with these all listening quizzes, I will be a master of English! It could sound fun, but it is… It’s easy to navigate. At the first page, there are video clip on the left side, and lists of many listening quizzes. The lists are categorized into different levels and purposes such as general listening, academic purposes, vocabulary, etc., so learners can easily find what they want to study and choose their own levels. The pages load quickly and there are not any broken links.
I bet any English learns will improve their English listening comprehension skills through this site and also speaking skills could be improved; it is a well known fact that listening and speaking skills go along with. Try to visit Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab and start!