Ten criteria to evaluate a website

Today, searching information in the Internet is very popular with many people, especially teachers and learners. To have an appropriate teaching material, teachers will have to work hard in the Internet. Therefore, to make this work easier and quicker, teachers should know how to evaluate a website. After discussing, our group comes to an agreement about ten criteria for teachers to evaluate a web. These are:

1. Language-learning potential: it means what teachers or learners will achieve or have after they make use of this web.
   
   
2. Learner fit: the learner’s level, language level which is suitable for learners or not.
   
   
3. Meaningful and contextualized presentation: that means all the vocabularies, grammar, etc. have to be put in a clear sentence and context so that the learners can catch the meanings easily and remember in a long time.
   
   
4. Practicality: the learners know how to use what they learn in life and communicate with other people.
   
   
5. Content is culturally appropriate: that means the contents of a website have to appropriate to learners’ culture. If not, learners cannot apply that knowledge in their country for the reason that those are very strange or even ridiculous to their culture.
   
   
6. Variety of items: a lot of exercises, practices, grammar, knowledge about many different fields or games.
   
   
7. Text quality: that is the font is large enough or small, the background or color of the text is easy to read or not, etc. Moreover, clear navigational aids are also important things to evaluate a website.
   
   
8. Interface: instructions should be clear and simple. In addition, the metalanguage is not difficult for students’ level.
   
   
9. Interactivity: feedback is a significant thing to consider. The feedbacks have to be sufficient and fitted with learners’ psychology.
   
   
10. Navigation: it is very important for learners when exploiting a web, with this, they know where to have a hint, where they can go back or next or where they can find the hyperlinks to other texts or images.

Take this link to onestopenglish.com as an evaluation model. In our opinion, this website meets these ten criteria in its wide variety of skills and topics which are authentic and practical to students. If you access this site, you will see clearly about what we have already found out.