EFFECTIVE USE OF EPOSTL BY STUDENT TEACHERS OF ENGLISH – EFUESTE 6-12 APRIL 2016, ANTALYA, TURKEY Effective use of the E-EPOSTL: List of suggestions Prepared by: Croatia: Dorotea Scopich, Izabela Weber Latvia: Laila Priedite, Raimonds Jankovskis Poland:Paulina Liżewska, Paweł Kamiński Slovakia:Barbara Popovič, Nikola Mihokova Turkey: Sinem Hergüner, Cemre Zengin

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Suggestions 3. Conclusion 4. Discussion

1. Introduction Aim Pre-requirements Categorization

2. Suggestions 2.1 Length Some long statements should be shortened if possible. The user should be given the freedom of choosing the section they wish to complete. The sections should be easily available for choosing.

2.2 Accessibility and e-features Instead of survey, the E-EPOSTL should be recreated as a website, allowing the creation of the users’ profiles. This profile would store user’s records and bios (name, institution, etc.) and allow basic communication between members of the community. The dossier part might be voluntarily made available to the community of the E-EPOSTL users, so as to receive their comments and suggestions upon one’s work.

2.2 Accessibility and e-features By highlighting or clicking on the key words, the user should be able to receive their definition in a pop-up message. The categories should be accessible from a drop-down menu at any time. A free mobile application should be created. A reminder could be sent every week via e-mail to remind the user to update the E-EPOSTL regularly.

2.2 Accessibility and e-features A way to submit suggestion to improve the E-EPOSTL should be provided. A graphically simplified version should be created in order to increase the accessibility for users with limited bandwidth. A congratulatory message should be seen after each section, providing the user makes progress.

2.2 Accessibility and e-features After completing the E-EPOSTL, the user should be provided with a database of supplementary sources in form of hyperlinks to journals, publications and blogs, in order to help one to improve oneself. While self-assessing, users should be able to add any note, link or reference as a reminder and motivator for themselves.

2.3 Graphic Design The E-EPOSTL should be visually appealing through the use of pictures and profile design. Interactive table of contents should be implemented, so that one can click on the heading, without having to look for where one has finished previously. Categorizing the sections of the E-EPOSTL as a drop down menu can be practical and time-saving.

2.3 Graphic Design A bar for showing one’s progress (how far one is) should be implemented. Also some icons to celebrate success and indicate how well one is doing. Also the bar could show how one’s self-assessment has improved, like if one performs the assessment more than once over a given period of time.

2.3 Graphic Design When the user proceeds further and fills in it more, a positive feedback in form of icons or symbols should appear on the screen as motivator. A graphic overhaul in form of changing static images with added spaces to fill in the number to interactive, dragable arrows should be carried out. A dyslexia friendly font (e.g. Arial) should be provided as an option.

2.4 Language More terms should be explained in glossary in greater detail (interactive hint). Statements should be simplified if possible in order to make them more comprehensible. 

3. Conclusion Necessity and possibility of change Habit formation

4. Discussion The scale Additional questions

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