Colleagues,

I suspect there are some experienced users of English For All (EFA) listening in on this discussion. Perhaps some of you, by now, have had a chance to look at USA Learns. What do you think? Is USA Learns, as John put it, EFA on steroids? Do you like the changes you see? Do they address concerns you yourself might have raised about EFA? What changes are you looking forward to using with your adult English Language distance education learners?

Do you think that USA Learns has significantly different low(er) level content than EFA?

Do you agree that it makes sense to have everything on the USA Learns web site? Do you think something has been lost by not having print materials?

What features, if any, do you think are innovative, that make especially good use of a web site as a medium for instruction?

How do you address the concern that someone raised that learning English using distance learning might not provide enough opportunity to use and practice the language?

John, Jere, and Leslie, please feel free to add to this list of questions for EFA users who might have by now spent some time looking at USAL.  

David J. Rosen
Special Topics Discussion Leader
djrosen at theworld.com
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