Review on EverWrite

EverWrite is a tool to teach English for English learner.  It is developed by VPG Integrated media, Boston. This application is easy to use and learner friendly. This application worked as a teaching tool. It has many practice session for the learners. It promotes learner’s self learning.

EverWrite is easy to handle for the new learner, because it has only four buttons to explore all things. To know the summary of the whole Application learner need to click on ‘Home’ and if the learners need any kind of help related to this application they have to click on ‘Help’. As it’s a tool for English learner so it has some exercises for learners. After doing exercises Learner can get their score by clicking on ‘score’ and if leaner needs to quit form the application s/he needs to click on ‘Quit’.

EverWrite has six parts for leaner’s, they are: Editing exercise, Identifying rhetorical paragraph, Working with translations, Organizing your thoughts, Recognizing your thesis statements and Practicing grammar. It is a full of practice session exercises. Learners test is scored and recorded in every session. Every session has different tasks for learners including choosing the correct answer, proofreading texts, rearranging statements, etc. The sessions are also leveled up, meaning the more sessions you cross in a topic the harder it becomes. The first part contains proof reading tasks where student read through texts and corrects different parts of language. Learners can always check their answers in the practice sessions. The second part of this application educates the different types of paragraphs using choose the correct answer. Third part teaches transitional verbs by allowing students select words from texts. Fourth part is rearranging sentences using choose the correct answer. Fifth and sixth part also consists chose the best answer tasks to teach thesis statement and practice grammar respectively.

According to Tom linson’s principles learners should feel at ease when handling any materials, while using this application learner feel comfortable. And it also helps to build learners confident after doing any exercise. This Application also relevant to Krashan’s input hypothesis , which states that learners progress in their knowledge of the language when they comprehend language input that is slightly more advanced than their current level. Krashen called this level of input "i+1", where "i" is the language input and "+1" is the next stage of language acquisition. Though the application doesn’t state for which level of students it should be used for but it seems fit for pre-intermediate level learners and Learners will get knowledge through doing the tasks and the tasks are little bit hard for the learner. They will acquire knowledge through practicing.

At the end, EverWrite is an interesting Application for the learner to explore and get knowledge on English Language. The more learners explore, the more they will get knowledge.