Website Evaluation Computer Assisted Language Learning CALL

them for any learners. 2 Evaluation after purchase or otherwise acquiring availability of software, means relying on one’s own ere, what is good or bad or AL theory” Scholfield, http:privatewww.essex.ac.uk perience and also from the standard criteria for a good e checklist method, teachers or experts need to pay atte d but before use. 3 Evaluation after the program has been acquired and used with some learners for a bit. The method used to evaluate website is through the use of Introspective judgmental evaluation. “Introspection judgmentexperience, and maybe published consensus in what should be th ~scholpcalleval.htm. This means that the method use the criteria taken from the teachers’ or experts’ ex website. This method uses checklist which consists of list of criteria to evaluate the website. In using th ntion to three main points in the method a detail of the program, b the target learners in a situation at a particular level, an c the use of researchtheory. The implementation of the checklist needs to supply the three 3 points above in order to have a good evaluation on the website. The checklist method provides teachers or experts with three 3 main criteria, they are 1 Specification, 2 Program design, and 3 Pedagogically relevant features. 1 Specification Specification is the external pre-requisites of the software, this criteria elaborates: a Aspects of software that are usually present and need to be looked at separately for evaluation b Aspects of the teaching or learning situation that are usually present and which are relevant to deciding if a is suitable or not c Does a fit b? OR What b would f? t? levant features often present and need to be looked ing or learning situation that may well need a particular hored or used in some way so that if fitted 2 Program design Relates to the software, mainly the computer-user interface which includes: a Aspects of software that are usually present and need to be looked at separately for evaluation b Aspects of the teaching or learning situation that are usually present and which are relevant to deciding if a is suitable or not c Does a fit b? OR What b would a fi 3 Pedagogically re Deals with the language or task which includes: a Some aspects of software that are at separately for evaluation b Some aspects of the teach to be taken into account when deciding if the aspects of the program listed in a are suitable or not for particular learners in situation c Does a fit b? Could it be aut them better? OR What b would a fit? PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI The criteria then will be used to evaluate the website. The criteria listed in the checklist are flexible meaning that you can add the criteria which suits to your ch designed website in order to know whether the website is appropriate to the target or from respondents. The checklist y. The use of the software is as a medium to help eatin Macromedia. It is a sophisticated program that is noted for many seamlessly move back and forth and make changes in both the visual mode de”. Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc, www.pcmag.com0,2542,t=Dreamweaveri=41988,00.asp.htm This program is a user-friendly program and is used to design program or software to be published online or offline. The program provides users with several hints and easy navigation buttons which enable users to design their own program. Using this designing program, users will have a lot of features used to create an attractive software for different purposes. Usually Macromedia Dream situation. It is also free for teachers or experts to organize the point in the ecklist in various ways. In the study the writer made use of website evaluation to evaluate the situation which is the first grade of Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 9 Yogyakarta not and also to gain suggestions and comments can be seen in appendix 4.

6. Macromedia Dreamweaver™ Application

Macromedia Dreamweaver™ is a software programming that is used to create website in the stud cr g attractive website design to gain students motivation in learning vocabulary and to expose them using exercises designed using the software. “A Web authoring program for Windows and the Macintosh from advanced features, including the Roundtrip capability which lets you and HTML mo weaver™ is used to design online interaction such as World Wide Web PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI WWW the des with tutorial program which contains the introduction of the area of work, the tools, animation, etc. Templates are also available here to ease users in designing the program. In the study the writer made use of Macromedia Dreamweaver™ as the programming software in the design. Macromedia Dreamweaver™ is the software used to design the whole web page and to manage the navigation in the design. This programming software also accommodates the features that are going to be presented in the website.

B. Theoretical Framework

In this study, the writer explains the use of computer to teach vocabulary for the first grade students of senior high school. The use of computer to teach vocabulary is supported by Macromedia Dreamweaver™ as the programming software to design the website for vocabulary learning. On the other side, in order to serve a valid design of vocabulary materials, the writer uses Kemp’s Instructional Design to design the materials. Kemp’s model was adapted in designing the instructions. There are 8 steps as explained in the Theoretical description. However, the writer made use of 6 steps from Kemp’s model because the writer considered that those 6 steps are the most important steps for developing the instructions used in the design. The steps adapted from Kemp’s model are as follows: . When designing a program, users will be guided with easy steps to start ign process. Macromedia Dreamweaver™ also provides beginner users PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI