teaching listening

What do you think of when the topic of learning listening becomes present? Listening to music, right? If you think like me, then lyricstraining is the best option for you and your interests. Music plays a fundamental role in terms of improving, in a certain way, the hearing of those who are learning a new language, even more so when that language is one as universal as English, and for that, lyricstraining mixes the best of two worlds. 

Just like Hannah Montana, learning and having fun at the same time, allowing you some relaxation and hobby time as you learn new words and get used to hearing the language. This tool sounds especially suitable for training your ear, and knowing at least the intonation and pronunciation with songs that you like, since the platform has a wide variety of music videos with which you can practice and study any language.

As always, this wonderful app must have some difficulty and this is the fact that learning with songs may not be the correct option if you are just entering the world of getting used to hearing another language, so some words, phrases or collocations They may become more complicated for you, so using a companion app to help you out doesn't sound like a bad idea.

lyricstraining Website

teaching reading

 When reading, we have to take into consideration not only our capacities, that of course are very important, but also our environment and how and when we do it. When teaching this, in order to improve reading comprehension and making it easier to anyone who has trouble or complications with difficult words, Rewordify makes it easier as ever for you! With its simple layout and easy access to its website, the work is 50% done, you just need what you don't understand in a text and there it is, the easy version of the same text you didn't understand or comprehend before. Its principal function makes it almost a necessity when teaching how to read better or how to make your own homework in a way that doesn't becomes a problem to you, and Rewordify makes it for you. 

As always, one of the downsides of this web application, might be the fact that only works to simplify your texts but does not translate any text into English, being it difficult to non English students to comprehend in a 100% what they're reading, so for using this site, you need to present at least a basic level of the language to utilize it in a correct form, but as they say, if you don't risk you don't win, so make yourself comfortable and patient and finally undertstand what you're reading!

Rewordify Website

Explication of Rewordify App

teaching writing

 In order to guide people in choosing an app to learn writing and practice it more, I have decided to make an special mention to this dearly app, Blogger! I, as a formal user of it, have been using this for a couple of years and I have to say it's the easiest to help you write and develop ideas, not only educationally speaking, but for you to have an space to just be yourself, you can even choose the layout, colors and everything! One of the best features is that it's totally personalizable, in order to reach your standards and likes about anything you could have in mind. This, used in writing teaching becomes a helpful app to use, because of its freedom, customizable and user friendly environment. Although, it sounds like pure magic almost, one of its counterparts is the fact of the lack of word correction and punctuaction making it difficult to realise if something is well written and, or, with the commas in their place. 

Considering its pros and cons, overall, Blogger becomes a friendly app to express and develop your writer abilities you might think you don't have but haven't have the oportunity to explore, and who knows, maybe this app helps you find your inner Gabriela Mistral!

Blogger Website

teaching speaking

 One of the most important arists in order to learn a new language, corresponds to the speaking part of it and that seems to be specially hard for new learners, not only becausee its difficulty but also for the shyness that implies speaking and vocalizing what you mean in another completely different language, and that's when an app as Zoom makes its arrival. This app not only focused on reunions and meeting with people of all parts of the world, also shares its most famous characteristic: its facility to connect with anyone who has an internet connection. This app plays an important role in language learning because of its easy access and understanding, making it trouble free for anyone who wants to use this. For language learning, is not one of the first options because of all the podcasts and English courses that offers the interaction between peers in order to train speaking, but it is one of the most common used in times like this when the worldwide pandemic makes it difficult to be face to face with lots of different people. On the other hand, maybe the fact that this app is not intended to work as a conversation app for people to specifically practice another language could make it difficult to anyone new using this, but we can only try different options to find what works for us, and trust me, using Zoom is never a bad option.

Zoom Website

teaching vocabulary

What is the first thing that goes through your mind when talking about how to teach your students vocabuly? Maybe it's fear, maybe insecurtity or even maybe fun...and that can only mean one thing. Using Kahoot! Lately, it has been one of the favorites not only from teachers, but of students too. Kahoot! igame-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes, this way, it not only plays an important play in what it means to have a good time, but also to learn. This app results very useful and relevant in the education field because of its diversity and reach to different level of students or people who just want to learn something new, like vocabulary, for example. This app could be used especially to foment the use of new languages on kids or adults whose attention span is not very long and find it difficult to stay focused long periods of time. Even if this app can be utilized to learn, a clear disadvantage corresponds to the diversity of topics that you can find on the website and practically every theme is covered by Kahoot! so you have to be careful and focus yourself in what you're doing there, because once you start playing, you can't seem to stop later!

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