evaluation of website #6 http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm

Credibility:
www.esl-lab.com/index.htm is designed by Randall Davis, who has degree of education and MA in TESL, years of experience of teaching language, and special interest in CALL.

Depth & scope of information:
http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm is a comprehensive website of English language learning. It has general listening quizzes consisting of three levels of “easy, medium, and difficult”. This part includes natural everyday conversation with adult and children’s voices, with a wide range of topics. Besides the daily conversation practice, the listening quizzes for academic purposes are also provided to help users to prepare for TOEFL/TOEIC test, including relevant lectures, interviews, and conversations. This part is also divided into three parts: medium, difficult, and very difficult.

The website devotes not only to language learning but also to life learning. In a section “Language Learning and Life Tips” which covers a wide range of topics like student health, free email accounts, online university, and so on.

In addition to audio materials, long conversations with Realvideo are provided so that learners may get used to various ways of stimuli.

Along with each listening program, exercises are designed: pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, and post-listening exercises. This best demonstrates the practice of repetition of listening tasks which is effective to help learners to duplicate the listening practice in different forms, for example, by searching internet for further information about the same topic.

Date of information:
The copyright of the website is reserved from 1998 until 2007. Contact information is also provided. When encountered any technological information about this website, users may fill in the form and will be responded at quickest time. In the meantime, any latest information uploaded will be marked with "new".

Special recommendation:
Long Conversations with RealVideo is my favorite part of the website, which can provide us with very real situations to use English.