The effect of using JavaScript and HTML to implement an E-learning web sites as a remedial teaching aid on English underachievers at universities of science and technology

Most of the students in universities of science and technology are English underachievers. To increase learning motivation and provide students with an after-school self-learning environment, an English E-learning web site must be established as a remedial teaching aid. Previous studies have shown that students have very positive views of online learning websites. Adding interactivities and real time feedbacks into e-learning web pages can raise the users' learning interest and motivation and allows users to involve them in the subject matter. To increase the on-line learning interactivities and real time feedbacks, a combination of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript could be used to implement web pages, and the JavaScript play the most important part of it. E-learning web site can combine multimedia technology and allow users to review and practice the material at any place. Consequently, this research developed an English E-learning web site and investigated how it could benefit the English underachievers. The results show that English underachievers can enhance their abilities with regard to vocabulary, phrases and listening by using the E-learning web site as a remedial teaching aid after school. The web site was also an inspiration to the underachievers, and encouraged them to have more interest in learning English.