This site is a good example of what computers were mainly used for in language teaching in the 1980's, while CALL designers were basing their approaches on behaviorist theories of language learning, even though teachers were by then using communicative approaches in the classroom. Not only is there a large amount of useful content, but it is added to from time to time with new quizzes. Due to the simple but clean layout, well-chosen colors and sparing but attractive use of graphics, the site has a very attractive look. The site also loads fast, due to the low number of graphics and the apparent high speed of the server on which the site resides. This is a Web-based bulletin board on which students can post questions about English.
Students use the form shown below to post their questions.
The questions appear in a list such as the one below. Responses to questions are indented. By clicking on a question or its follow-up, a screen such as the one below appears with the text of the question. Note that 40 minutes passed from the student's original message to the teacher's follow-up. The teacher was able to not only tell the student the origin of the vocabulary item, but also to explain what it meant in the context of the student's example.