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Frenchteacher.net survey results

I posted a survey about eight weeks ago, asking subscribers to frenchteacher.net to answer short questions about their usage of the site and to provide other feedback. This is useful to me as I aim to monitor which resources are most popular and make improvements to the site in the future. I have done similar surveys in the past, but this is the first using Google Forms. I used to use Surveymonkey, but they now severely limit the number of responses in their free version.

Thank you to subscribers who completed the survey. You can always email me with specific feedback or ideas.

In response to a comment (one I have read previously), I have started a section on the A-level page featuring resources about current affairs. I have avoided these in the past since they have such a short shelf life, but you'll now find, at the top of the A-level page, regularly replaced resources which I can produce quickly.

I was also asked to post more on film and literature, but I won't be doing that since it takes so long to produce good stuff for a very few subscribers and many of my subscribers are outside the UK, so the resources would not be relevant. My other exam-related texts and video listening resources are more widely applicable. For film and lit I strongly recommend dolanguages.com from my friend Steve Glover.

One other interesting finding. More than one teacher was not aware of the full range of resources, especially newer ones, on the site. Not so subtle plug!

This is what I found out:

Forms response chart. Question title: Which sections of the site do you use most?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use vocabulary crosswords on the Y7-11 pages?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: In the A-level page, which do you make more use of?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use A-level exam prep resources?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use 'text + exercises' tasks on the Y9, Y10 and Y11 pages?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Have you ever used full lesson plans from the site?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Have you tried the 'Correct the transcript' tasks on the Y10-11 page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.


Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the 30-minute instant listening tasks on the Y10-11 page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the dialogues on the Y8 page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the grammar worksheets on the A-level page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the grammar worksheets on the Y8, Y9 and Y10-11 pages?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the Powerpoints on the Y7/Primary page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Have you used any of the starters on the Y7,8 and 9 pages?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Have you ever used the 30 minute instant listening tasks on the A-level page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Have you ever used the Tarsia puzzles on the Y7/Primary page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you ever use the narrow listening or narrow reading tasks on the Y8-9 pages?. Number of responses: 72 responses.Forms response chart. Question title: Do you every use the parallel texts on the Y7/Primary page?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

Forms response chart. Question title: Do you use the video listening tasks in Y9, 10 ans 11?. Number of responses: 72 responses.


Forms response chart. Question title: Do you ever use the sentence builders on the site?. Number of responses: 72 responses.

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