www.eslpartyland.com

 1   1. This website helps ESL teachers to be more creative instead of having normal and repeated exercises or lesson plans in classroom, in other words-being a better teacher.  It also helps those who would like to learn or strengthen their knowledge in the English language by providing English lessons. The learning and teaching sections are differentiate throughout two different colours- blue is for learning while red is for teaching. There are a lot of exercises included in the website which cover from all the four skills integrated in the English language plus exercises which require both teachers and learners to play with the internet, videos, as well as music in their lesson. There is no column for immediate feedback but this website provides the visitor to give comments or asks questions by joining them through facebook and twitter. There are different levels of difficulty for different level of proficiency provided both in the lesson plans and the quizzes.

2.   2.  In order to access to the whole content of the website, visitors should choose either to teach or to learn. In other words, the visitors of this website can be both learners and teachers of the second language. Learning content can be identified through the blue colour while red is used to identify teaching content. The layout of this website is very simple yet captivating throughout its choice of colours and the way it is organized. Learners or visitors would not have to worry about having trouble to download the contents or the materials provided since they are permissible to download or copy the whole thing in it. There is even an instruction of saying “Press CTRL+P to print the lesson plan”.

3.   3. Going through this website does not remind me of anything that I have learned before in the English classroom while I was in school. During my time in school, it was really exam-oriented and there was no fun in learning the language as compared to what is presented in this website that looks so cool and creative. Having activities with my friends in learning English has not happened since I’m used to study alone. I rarely use English to have discussion with my friends but English seems to be my first language at my workplace. Thus, this leaves me no option to say that I have never ventured in any of the activities with either my friends or my teacher. However, if it is about self-study, I do learn something by watching movies such as the grammatical factors, pronunciation, intonation etc.

4.   4.  Yes it does. And surprisingly, I am interested to know more about it once I have gone through the website. The first part that caught my attentions is learning with the videos which are called as ENGLEO (English Video Lessons for Learners and Teachers). It does not only teach you about how to speak or listen, but it also provides lessons for those who are not interested in reading books to learn English.    In the movie lessons, students are to watch a movie and there will be some exercises to be done within the three stages namely pre, while, and post. Though it is said that some of the movies suggested are not suitable for those of the lower level of proficiency but teachers should know best to select which movie to serve their students with.

5.  5. One of the theories that can be associated with this website is the Zone Proximal Development by Vygotsky. Scaffolding or assistance is the focus of this theory in which students are being assisted by their teacher or more capable peers in learning. It can be said this website assists its visitors to become better learners throughout the learner’s section and assists teachers to become better teachers through the teacher’s section. The other theory that can be related to this application is constructivism. Teachers as well as students are to construct new knowledge based on the schema that they already have. The already-established knowledge are combined with the knowledge that they find in the website to improve their second language teaching and learning.

6.  6. As for the underlying   four aspects of the English language learning- listening, speaking, reading and writing, yes, this website is potential in language learning. It has all the aspects covered with a variety of source of activities to be done with the students. It helps teachers to be creative in teaching their students the language that might sound alien to them. All the worksheets have been provided and teachers just need to press CTRL+P to print them. The videos are already linked and all the visitors or learners need to do is just click and watch.

7.  7.  Yes, I would love to. World nowadays is changing rapidly and everyone has the access to the internet, everyone, including small kids. This rapid change has somehow affected the education system in which teachers are forced to be one step ahead of their students in order to grasp their attention in learning. Students of nowadays world are more interested in IT instead of the old school way of learning, language specifically. Conducting lessons using the old way is no longer an option for teachers as students will be bored to tears in classroom. However, combining both old school and the hi-tech way of teaching and learning can be the best way to cater the students’ need. Teachers are also required to improve themselves for the betterment of the education system. For this purpose, teachers should get out of the box to face the realm of nowadays world. This website is essential in helping ESL teachers to conduct better lesson plans in classrooms. Despite of having the computer assisted learning aspect, this website is helpful in creating a livelier environment of a classroom throughout the activities and games provided.