Road to Grammar
Principal function(s): Autonomous learningIndividual workGrammarStudentWebsite/other users supply
Road to Grammar is a website offering various resources and exercises for learning English grammar targeted at young learners, teachers, and adults. Users can navigate through different grammar topics and access exercises, quizzes, and explanations to practice and improve their English grammar skills. Road to Grammar is free and does not require signing up for use.
Evaluation: Road to Grammar is a practical and easy-to-use site that can foster autonomous grammar learning. For teachers, it is time-saving to find ready-made materials for English teaching. Road to Grammar also offers games that might be more entertaining for specific learners. Another tool it contains is "Text Analyzer", which rates the difficulty of a text according to CEFR Levels, and has other useful functions such as generating suggested vocabulary lists and directing users to an online dictionary to show their meaning.
Cost: Free.
Website: http://www.roadtogrammar.com/
Categories
Content
- Website/other users supply
Usability
Interface
User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface
Straightforward, slightly old-fashioned.
Time efficiency
Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task
High.
Interface language(s)
The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to
English.
Respect for privacy
Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?
Medium (?). Road to Grammar does not ask for any personal data since it does not require installing or setting up an account. However, it seems to gather cookies since advertisements are tailored to users’ location. There is no privacy section on the website.
Saving work for future use
Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction
No.
Tailorability (If so, how?)
Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)
No
Technical requirements
Compatibility/ Operating System
Other technical requirements