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Listen and write is a learning-English website that helps to improve your listening and writing skills. This website provides various listening materials both in audio and video form. It can be accessed for free.
Benefits
Two language skills are trained once. You can choose listening and writing materials based on levels (1-39) or categories.
What is new?
There are 4 writing modes: full mode, quick mode, blank mode, correction mode. Even if you are listening to a long story, there is a pause after one sentence, you can repeat it several times before writing it properly and go to the next sentences.
How to use
Go to the website and sign in through your e-mail/ Facebook. When you are in, you can choose your level or categories you are interested in. Then you can choose modes you want, play the certain audio or video then type the words or sentences you just listened to. You can see your score by the end of the test.
Classroom implementation
The teacher can control listening activities by determining the proper materials needed by the students. The teacher can direct students’ choice of level and categories. Then, students are asked to choose a certain mode, write down what they are just listened to and report their scores.
18. Basic English speaking (basicenglishspeaking.com) Fransiskus Dinang Raja
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Basic English speaking is a learning-English website that helps you in improving listening and speaking skills. The lessons provided on the website that cover 75 topics that you will face very often in your daily life, 100 phrases and sentence patterns, 50 common English expressions, 102 common English idioms, and basic English grammar.
Benefits
You can learn English on the bus while going to work. You can learn English while exercising or walking. You can learn English while shopping. You can learn English while sitting at a coffee shop, etc.
130 What is new?
Each lesson is designed in the form of ESL conversation questions and answers, followed by REAL English conversation audios, which will definitely benefit your English conversation practice .
How to use
Go to the website. Choose a certain lesson you want. Listen to the materials and remember, DEEP LEARNING is the No. 1 secret to English fluency. If you want to speak English fluently and automatically, you have to repeat the same lesson over and over again until you MASTER it.
Classroom implementation
The teacher gives a certain theme to the students from the website. Then, students are asked to listen to the materials and repeat them softly while listening. Teachers ask each student to find a partner to demonstrate the dialog in front of the classroom.
19. Italki (www.italki.com) Dyah Retno Wulan
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Italki is an online language learning website which connects language learners and teachers through video chat. It was founded in 2007 in Hongkong by Kevin Chen and Youngyue Jiang. It has been created for all the major players in education; student, worker, traveler, independent.
Benefits
Students master enduring skills, foster new perspectives and connect with interesting people from all over the world.
What is new?
The web provides 10,000+ teachers in any language and Customized Learning.
How to use
1) Visit the website https://www.italki.com 2) Choose your teacher
3) Book your lesson 4) Start the journey
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher opens the mobile apps and shows the mobile apps on the LCD.
2) The teacher introduces how to use this application well.
3) Students can find online native teachers for 1-on-1 tutoring 4) Students might foster their critical thinking.
131 20. talkenglish.com (www.talkenglish.com)
Dyah Retno Wulan
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Learn speaking for free in talkenglish.com. The goal is to help students Learn English speaking so students can speak English fluently, and improve user’s spoken English Free.
Benefits
TalkEnglish.com provides English lessons in the form of text audio files.
What is new?
This website provides English lesson and a hundred of free videos from English video page.
How to use
1) Open the website https://www.talkenglish.com 2) Tap feature menu
3) Choose the lesson.
4) Enjoy the lesson
Classroom implementation
1) Teacher opens the website and shows the website on LCD 2) Teacher gives some lesson instructions
3) Students tap a basic listening lesson#01 and do the steps.
4) The teacher gives some reflections on it.
21. EducationTransparent (education.transparent.com) Endah Kurtianti
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This application provides students to obtain integrated skills in English. Students may learn from the easiest topic: greeting. There are several kinds of icons: multiple choices, pairing, matching, listen and repeat, and unscramble the phrase. Every utterance is given the meaning, so students easily memorize the meanings.
Benefits
Students can learn simultaneously both productive and receptive skills. Teachers can print the exercises. The design is fun and easy to be followed.
What is new?
Students may learn from alphabets each person. There is an exercise: matching the utterances spoken by native and followed by the written utterances later.
How to use
1. Open education.transparent.com
2. Both students and teachers need to register by using email.
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3. Students can start with the exercises they want.
Classroom implementation
1.) To train students’ speaking, they can use the spelling inspector to clarify whether their pronunciation is correct or not.
2.) While enjoying music, they can know the meaning of each word. Through this way, students’ creativity can be trained.
3.) There are several kinds of tests for each material followed by the score and feedback.
22. ForumUnilang (forum.unilang.org) Endah Kurtianti
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It is a funny application where you can find any song, film, video connected with your friends around the world by giving any comments related to the issue. Through this media, you can give any comments to your friends. There are several forums here:
culture, literature, politics, and region.
Benefits
Students get extensive readings not only about texts in the curriculum. It can sharpen students’ critical thinking because they start to discuss and get someone’s point of view around the world which is totally different.
What is new?
In this web, we can know anyone and when they start to join this forum. We can access the comment in the past.
How to use
3) Open forum.unilang.org
4) We just need to register by using an email.
5) Then, we may just follow the discussion.
Classroom implementation
1) Students need to use their creativity in developing such passage: make sure the tense and vocabulary needed.
2) If there is a video uploaded by any member, so students’ listening comprehension is also trained.
3) Students’ collaborations also are trained by giving some comments or solutions related to the issue given.
23. ESOL Courses (www.esolcourses.com) Latifah Fatmawati
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It is a free language website about materials for teaching and learning English. The materials are suitable for teaching literacy, numeracy, and functional skills. It could be used in the classroom or for adult learners who want to study English independently.
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1) It provides lesson ideas in many forms which suitable for the learners; beginners, elementary, intermediate and advanced
2) It provides self-study materials
What is new?
In here, we can practice our English by interactive listening lessons, reading exercises, quizzes, and games.
How to use
1) Accesses https://www.esolcourses.com by using a computer or laptop 2) Selects the materials suitable for the learners’ needs.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher selects materials from https://www.esolcourses.com 2) The teacher displays the materials using projector
3) The teacher explains the materials to the students
4) The teacher gives group assignment related to the materials
24. Educreations (www.educreations.com) Latifah Fatmawati
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Educreations is a website which enables students and teachers to share ideas, collaborate, and learn new things. The teacher could share the materials with pictures or videos, and students could show what they know and help friends learn something new.
Benefits
1) This web provides online classrooms, such as teacher and student discussion or group tasks.
2) This web encourages students to learn technology and explore their creativity.
What is new?
It is simple and fun to use, so it makes the students more active in digital learning.
How to use
1) The teacher accesses https://www.educreations.com/ by using a computer or laptop 2) The teacher creates a class and designs it
3) The teacher shares the code to the students, so they could join the class
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher chooses the topic, then share a picture or video in the online class 2) The students share their opinion about the materials
3) The teacher gives group assignment
4) The students present the result in digital portofolio (picture or video)
134 25. Zenius Education (www.Zenius.net)
Febry Khunto Sasongko
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Zenius Education is an Indonesian website that offers a fun and educative online learning place for students’ high school levels.
Benefits
With Zenius, students can make critical thinking through the website easily, also students use collaboration between materials and questions.
What is new?
The Zenius website provides thousands of study material videos and practice packages from high school levels and preparation for university entrance exams.
How to use
1) First Students have to sign up on the website.
2) Choose the class and pay for your materials 3) Choose the material
4) Enjoy the class
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher takes the material from the website, and explains the material 2) Teachers make groups consist of 3 to 5 students,
3) The teacher plays the video and requests the students to answer the questions.
26. LinkedIn SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) Febry Khunto Sasongko
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LinkedIn SlideShare is an associate degree American hosting service for skillful content together with shows, infographics, documents, and videos. Students of SlideShare will transfer files in private or publically in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or open document format.
Benefits
The website originally means to create slides creatively, however, it’s conjointly going forward to become a bunch of many slides that are indicating for entertain functions exclusively.
What is new?
1) When presentations upload to Slideshare, the documents are more accessible.
2) There is no need to download the document first because it is more visual than a simple link.
135 How to use
1) Open the website www.slideshare.net 2) Sign up with your email account 3) Upload your ppts, docs, or pdfs 4) Share the link
Classroom implementation
1) Firstly the teacher asks students to create an account on Slideshare, 2) Then the teacher asks students to look for topics that are being viral.
3) Students make a presentation creatively about the viral topic,
4) Finally, the students upload the presentation to SlideShare, to get feedback from other students.
27. HiNative (hinative.com)