The website I used for my action research is http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/esl/reading/activities1.html. My students, 20 of them, were first asked to browse the website and do the exercises on thier own in the MMLC. They were given 10 minutes as this is set by the web. The topic is about Halloween. After schecking the answers and some consolidation questions were asked to test their understanding. The use of simple present tense and simple past tense was revised as well. Though they are in an EMI school, they are in the remedial class. After revising, they were told to brainstorm 1 festival they like most and draft a mind map for their composition--My favourite festival.
The website could really arouse their interest and let them learn a set of vocabulary for Halloween. At the same time, these students could follow the organisation of the website to draft and eventually write their composition. Though there were numerous grammatical mistakes in the use of the 2 tenses, they could still show me they could follow the lesson. To use a website to teach is not simple as if the topic is too close, students may attempt to copy a lot from the article. But my weak students, some supplementary readings can really help them understand the topic well, and organise their article sensibly and give us reasonable work.
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