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Makale Özeti:
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In the present study we call attention to the close connection between languages and
globalization, and we also emphasize the importance of the Internet and online websites
in foreign language teaching and learning as unavoidable elements of computer assisted
language learning (CALL). We prepared a checklist by which we investigated 28 foreign
language teaching websites (4 from each of seven languages including English, French,
German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). The participants were 14 third-year
university students who were enrolled in the French Language teaching department, but
had a basic knowledge of the related languages that was sufficient to read and write. All
the students had taken CALL classes at university level, and had previous experience of
website evaluation and assessment. As a result of the analyses of the language teaching
websites, we observed that they were lacking physically, contextually and pedagogically.
Consequently, we built a model foreign language website frame considering the feedback
that we received from the subjects. We believe that our website evaluation checklist and
model website frame might greatly serve the CALL field.
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