RT Journal Article
T1 Does technical assessment matter? Functionality and usability testing of websites for ESL/EFL autonomous learners.
A1 Aguayo-Arrabal, Natividad
A1 Ramírez-Delgado, Cristina de las Montañas
K1 Inglés - Estudio y enseñanza
K1 Tecnología educativa
K1 Autoaprendizaje
AB Given  the  social  impact  and  the  transformation  of   the  teaching–learning  process  enhanced  by  new  technologies,  online  language  learning  has  been  established  as  a  field  of   study  that  has  been  approached  primarily  from  the  perspective  of   peda-gogical  themes.  In  the  context  of   the  LinguApp  research  project  developed  at  the  University of  Córdoba (Spain),1 we aim to evaluate the technical quality of  a group of   English  teaching  websites  for  self-directed  learning.  The  analysis  is  based  on  functionality and usability aspects through the use of  a specifically designed check-list, created and preliminarily implemented in the early development phase of  this study. To complete the design of  the checklist before external validation, we offer a comparative study of  four renowned websites from the LinguApp corpus: ESOL-Courses, BBC, British Council and Cambridge English.2 These preliminary results allow to identify the strengths and weaknesses of  these language learning websites by subjecting the data to qualitative and quantitative analysis, while they shed light on the need to strengthen web performance and so reinforce autonomous language students’ experience.
PB Association for Learning Technology
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39789
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39789
LA eng
NO Aguayo N., & Ramírez C. M. (2020). Does technical assessment matter? Functionality and usability testing of websites for ESL/EFL autonomous learners. Research in Learning Technology, 28. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v28.2353
NO LinguApp project: Ensuring Universal and Inclusive Access to Second Language Learning’ (Ref. No. PRY208/17) (Fundación Pública Andaluza Centro de Estudios Andaluces)
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026