Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - Vocabulary Quiz

Introduction

As shown on the title, 'Self-Study Quizzes' is a free-access online quiz website, which is particularly designed for students and learners who study English as a second language. There are various types of quizzes on this webpage, such as grammar quizzes, vocabulary quizzes and even bilingual quizzes. Furthermore, all these quizzes can be applied by both teachers and students or learners themselves. In the following parts, I will choose an easy vocabulary quiz as a example to explain how to use it in class or for learners themselves.

Vocabulary Quiz Sample - Months of the Year

• This quiz selected is an easy vocabulary quiz referring to the 12 months of a year. As shown on the image above, this quiz contains 12 questions and after each question, users will get an immediate feedback to show whether their answer is right or wrong. In my opinion, the immediate feedback is considerable and helpful for learners to figure out the mistakes they made.
• The questions are designed in a very creative way with newstyle which can easily catch users' attention and arouse their interests.
• Besides, quizzes are designed with different kinds and levels of difficulty, so learners can choose the type and difficulty level of the quizzes according to their own needs.

How to adapt it to class?

1. As the selected quiz only contains 12 questions and it will not take too much time, teacher can use it as a warm-up or wrap up exercise in the class.
2. As a warm-up task, it may help teacher motivate students with its creative way of asking questions.
3. If taking it as a wrap up exercise, this quiz can help teacher to check how much have the students learnt from the lesson.
4. In addition, the website 'Self-Study Quizzes' can be introduced to students or learners as a practice tool for their self-study.
5. Certainly, teachers can also use it as a source of in-class exercises or tasks.

Some limitations

• Again, the basis of using this quizzes website is Internet access, so for those schools or classes without computers, such wonderful tool may not be applied.
• While there are many kinds of quizzes on this website, and the sample vocabulary quiz selected here is attractive, there are still many other quizzes which are not suitable for in-class practice.
• Not all quizzes are designed with feedbacks, so users or learners have to choose the quizzes carefully.