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Today we gonna review apps "Test Your English by Martin K"
This application was made with tto
aim that users can assess their English language skills in a simple way andate
our mistakes in English. let's discuss from several aspects:
• Relevance
“Test Your English” lets us
create an intan interactive quiz academic or learning purposes. It's
offers a wide range of features
for quiz creation. This application is beneficial for
teaching English through online
because teacher can give their students assignment or
homework through “Test Your
English” more easily.
• Feedback
Teachers can make a questions in
the form of multiple choice, text, drop lists, and
others. Teacher can provide an
explanation for each answer option so that students can
evaluate their mistakes by
themselves if they chooses the wrong answer.
• Thinking Skill
The thinking ability that will be
obtained by students depends on the teacher who made
the questions, because this
application frees the teacher to make questions according to
the learning objectives that he
designed. For example, if the teacher wants his students
to learn about problem solving
and explanation skills, the teacher can make a questions
in the form of text or
description.
• Ease of Use
This application is very easy to
access for everyone including students because they
only need to open the link that
has been given by teacher, after that they will join and
be able to answer the questions
immediately.
• Engagement
Student is highly motivated to
use “Test Your English” rather than the other application because
its relatively easy to access and
they can see their score instantly after they finishes the
task.
• Sharing
There is no sharing feature so
the only person who know all of the students answer it's
just the question maker which is
teacher.
• Accessibility & Cost
“Test Your English” is a free
application that can be used without any subscription, but there is
limitations such as you only able
to create 10 questions, the maximum response is only
25, and there are ads that might
be little bit annoying.
• How to Use/Apply it in ELT
You can prepare a quiz with
either the exam mode for evaluation or the challenge mode
for fun. You can assign a topic
to the quiz and define the level of knowledge to prepare
effective quizzes. You can also
customize the scoring policy, such as awarding points
for each correct answer.
• The Impact of this Application
in ELT
The impact of “Test Your English”
for ELT is in order to provide a simple and easy place to
assess your students through
different kinds of form.
• The Advantage
The reason why “Test Your English”
is the best quiz application because it can lets you set a
time limit for the quiz and the
individual questions, you can hide the editing option for
the questions to protect the
test's integrity. You can also import some questions from
the text file to save your time.
Besides that, “Test Your English” show the correct answer after
each question which very useful
for students. It also give students “result” as a
percentage of correct answers.
Thus they get their feedback while their doubts are still
fresh on their minds.
• The Limitation
Sometimes ads or banners with
inappropriate content is pop out while you open the
application. Conversely, you also
have to take the time to conduct a proper
screening to ensure the quizzes
and links are workingproperly.
• Language Skills or Components
Quiz applications such as “Test
Your English” are useful for sharpening and restoring students’
memory of the previous materials
such as grammar and vocabulary because this method
is relate with the previous
material that has been taught. Therefore, teachers use this
application just to measure the
level of understanding their students at the end of the
learning process.
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