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What is Independent User

Chapter 7
International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
Self-learner, user of a website or web-based system for a specific purpose, i.e. the autonomous learning of a language.
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A Proposal of Evaluation Criteria for the Quality of ESL/EFL Websites for Autonomous Learning
Natividad Aguayo-Arrabal (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain) and Cristina de las Montañas Ramírez-Delgado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1219-7.ch007
Abstract
In the current digital era, autonomous learning outside formal education has become a significant context for languages. In view of the huge number of websites for the study of foreign languages and their popularity due to the advantages of autonomous online learning, the authors' main goal is to evaluate the technical quality of a free online resource for the self-study of English: ESOL courses. For this purpose, this chapter presents the design of the evaluation tool: a checklist through which aspects concerning functionality and usability have been analyzed as essential characteristics of the technical dimension of a website, based on an extensive literature review and the initial technical analysis within LinguApp. The results show that non-compliance with the evaluated items leads to a deficient experience for independent users, unable to exploit all possibilities of the website due to the technical limitations they may encounter.
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