Mobile Apps for ESL Students
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This language-learning app features more than 3,000 words and
expressions and covers a wide range of topics through comprehensive
vocabulary sections and interactive tests. Levels include
beginner to advanced, and it is available for download on iPhone and
Android (20 units are free and remaining content is available upon
purchase).
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A very entertaining and highly-interactive app, it features a
series of mini-lessons of approximately 5 minutes, so students have no
excuses when it comes to making the most of idle time. The
student interacts with the app through speech recognition software that
recreates a real video call. It’s available for download on iPhone or
Android for free.
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This is a tremendously popular app, particularly in the Spanish-speaking market.
It features news and stories on a variety of topics, and provides games
for language practice, plus short quizzes to test comprehension. It can
be downloaded for free on iPhone and Android.
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This app was developed by the British Council in conjunction
with Cambridge University Press and offers a wonderful, engaging way to
learn new words through sets of interactive flashcards. Additional vocabulary packs may be downloaded from Cambridge dictionaries. Available for free on iPhone and Android.
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This app features 20 lessons, each with a video dialogue.
The app gives learners the option to read the conversation and then
answer questions and complete a variety of exercises. It’s a great app
for those who wish to practice more conversational English. It’s
available for download on iTunes.
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Developed by Cambridge University Press and based on the
successful Grammar in Use series, this app allows students to practice
English grammar as a series of “tests” that are more akin to games.
It’s not free, but it’s one of the best apps for students who want some
grammar practice on the go. There is also a complete series of apps
based on the Grammar in Use books available for iPhone.
These are but a few of the hundreds of apps available for mobile learning.
If you have tried any and would like to recommend them, please tell us about them in the comments below!
I think, I will use it one day. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI think that they are very interesting apps to learn languages. It has looks of being very entertaining. Maybe someday I will use one of them to see that such it is. Thank you Nerea!
ReplyDeleteVery useful apps.
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This app is so interesting. Maybe, one day I will use it!
ReplyDeleteThis app is so interesting, maybe some day I will use one of this app because I think that you can study something with this.
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