Site
Title: Better Grammar Starts Here!
Developer:
Dina Papachristou
Focus:
My website will be an informational site, not a promotional one. The main purpose
of the site will be to help nonnative speakers of English with grammar
problems. No matter how long nonnative speakers have been living in the U.S.,
they usually have trouble with their grammar use. The site will provide
information in an accessible way so that visitors will not feel overwhelmed as
if reading a grammar book. Such information will include short, simply stated
rules and lots of examples. Moreover, there will be links to grammar books and
video tutorials.
Main
features outline: For the time being, I think my site
will have the following pages:
·
Homepage
·
About
me
·
Grammar
Rules
·
Practice
·
Contact
Content: The
homepage will welcome visitors and explain
the objectives of the site and its target audience, and it will also give instructions on how to use
the site. Links to the other web pages will also be there.
An About Me page will give information about me and my long teaching
experience with nonnative speakers of
English.
A Grammar page with options for the visitor/learner to choose from:
Such options may be: Verb Tenses, Sentence Structures, Articles, Verb forms, Punctuation.
The options will open Power Point presentations on the most basic grammar
rules.
A Practice page with exercises and links to further tutorials.
A contact page.
Target
audience: The target audience of the site is ESL (English as a
Second Language) or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) adult learners,
especially those who decide to go after a BA or an MA and their command of the
English grammar is not good enough for academic writing. Of course, learners of all ages will also find it useful.
Design
considerations: I hope that I will be able to create a
user friendly and consistent navigation system. That being said, I will try to
offer visitors fast track ways of accessing the information they are looking
for and also enable them to get back to previous pages easily.
Limiting
Factors: Probably the main limitation will be my own limited
knowledge of designing a website. Another limitation is that time is not enough
for me to create a lot of Power Point presentations for a sufficient number of
grammar rules. So, I have to choose no more than five grammatical structures to
present. A good website designed to "teach" grammar would be required to have many more.
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