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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)
136 28. Khan Academy (id.khanacademy.org)
Joan Nofila Nurlinita [email protected] Description
Khan Academy is a non-profiteducational organization created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos, also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators
Benefits
Khan Academy is a free-to-use program that can be used by anybody and the website was originally created for people to learn at home, it also has many tools that make it applicable for use in classrooms.
What is new?
Khan Academy helps students increase opportunities for critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, all while supporting the learning objectives that you have for your students.
How to use
1) Create your account select as teacher and student.
2) Create a class.
3) Add a member of the group.
4) Navigate the site with confidence.
Classroom implementation
1) Teachers give homework for the students.
2) The instruction of homework is available at Khan Academy.
3) Students have to do homework in this application, such as making a narrative text then submit the task.
29. Open Culture (www.openculture.com) Ivan Rifai
[email protected] Description
Open culture is a website that provides learning language materials through culture.
The learners will not only learn the language but also learn the culture of the languages’
origin countries. This website is from the US and provides 48 languages in the world to learn.
Benefits
This website can be accessed for free and it contains a lot of information from many countries around the world. It also provides articles and news that surely will increase our knowledge about the world.
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This website is different from other language learning websites.
http://www.openculture.com/ invites the learners to learn language through the culture of the languages’ origin countries.
How to use
1) Open http://www.openculture.com/ through the browser.
2) The teacher and students can directly learn using the contents which are provided by the website.
3) The learners may learn through movies, articles, audio, and textbook that exist on the website.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher may ask the students to open the website.
2) The teacher asks the students to learn one topic that the teacher chooses.
3) The material can be from articles, movies, or audio provided by the website.
4) After learning the topic, the teacher invites the students to conduct a discussion.
5) The discussion activity can discuss the language or cultural aspects of the topic.
30. Interpals (www.interpals.net) Ivan Rifai
[email protected] Description
Interpals is a website from the US that connects people around the world who want to learn languages. More than 50 languages exist on this web include its native speakers.
The users who join this community can interact with many natives to learn many languages directly with the natives.
Benefits
This website can be accessed for free by the users. Anytime and anywhere this website can connect us with language native speakers.
What is new?
By accessing this website, we will not only learn languages from its natives but also we can make friends with people around the world.
How to use
1) Open https://www.interpals.net/app/index through browser.
2) Make an account using email.
3) The learners can connect and learn languages for free with many people in the world anytime and anywhere.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher gives a quiz to the students about English.
2) The teacher asks the students to conduct a discussion with the natives through the website.
3) After the discussion is done and all of the students have answered the quiz based on the information they have gotten from the natives.
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4) The teacher asks them to show what they have learned from the natives.
31. Speaky (www.speaky.com) Zahrotul Lutfiana
[email protected] Description
Speaky is a free language exchange website or application which helps us to find language partners worldwide. We can use this website to practice speaking with natives.
Benefits
This website distinguishes native speakers from other language learners.
What is new?
It is easy to identify the language level of each language exchange community member.
Also, this website provides text correction.
How to use
Firstly, sign up with Facebook or google+. Then select a language you would like to learn and choose your current level. After that, use filters to browse speaky’s language exchange community and find the perfect pen pal. Then, engage in conversation with language learners whose profile and interests match your expectations.
Classroom implementation
This website is for communication practice with natives. So, teachers can practice it in the classroom by showing the students how to interact with natives by text. It will improve the English level both speaking and writing because of interacting with natives directly.
32. Futurelearn (www.futurelearn.com) Zahrotul Lutfiana
[email protected] Description
Futurelearn is a digital education platform which is based in London, United Kingdom.
It offers diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. For language learning, this website offers language and culture course. Learners can study about grammar, writing, listening, reading and speaking.
Benefits
Futurelearn offers a powerful new way to learn online. Every course has been designed according to principles of effective learning through storytelling, discussion, visible learning, and using community support to celebrate progress.
What is new?
Each partner university of futurelearn has designed a complete learning experience that is presented by leading academics in their field. Besides, the learner can share and
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debates ideas with fellow learners to understand their different experiences and perspectives and to fill the gaps in the learner’s knowledge as well.
How to use
First of all, go to the website https://www.futurelearn.com. Then, sign up or sign in for the website. Choose the course that the learner wants to learn. After that, choose the topic. Then, start studying the course.
Classroom implementation
The members of futurelearn are not only students but also there are a lot of teachers who join this website. Teachers can implicate this website in writing classes. For example, the teacher asks the students to write a simple essay based on the topic which is available on this website.
33. Learnalanguage.com (www.learnalanguage.com) Nito Majid Mujtahid
[email protected] Description
Learnalanguage.com is a tool that cordially invites multilanguage learners to connect with people and explore various topics of interest based on everyday experience.
Benefits
Learnalanguage offers the independent learner to explore the multi-language and multicultural context in terms of academic development such as social study, language arts and related verbal terms in the classroom or beyond.
What is new?
Simple steps for access to this online tool. Learnalanguage is merely either a knowledge-based or learner-based online tool, but related input and output usages are less appropriately well-designed.
How to use
1) Go to www.learnalanguage.com
2) Choose your preferred language and click the language icon 3) Click on the specific learning objective
Classroom implementation
1) Firstly, the teacher instructs the student to open www.learnalanguage.com 2) Secondly, the teacher suggests the students about the material.
3) Then, the teacher divides the students into a group discussion.
4) The last, A group of students present it to others.
140 34. Vocabulary (www.vocabulary.com)
Nito Majid Mujtahid
[email protected] Description
Vocabulary.com is a platform for lifelong learning with every step to improve the words that you learn that you will become more advanced. And, with our easy-to-use progress- monitoring tools.
Benefits
Vocabulary.com uses a proprietary technology that we call Adaptive Vocabulary Instruction (AVI). It’s like you have a personal trainer in the room, monitoring your work and suggesting new words and exercises to challenge you on your level.
What is new?
It turns learning vocabulary into an addictive game. Accumulate points, achievements, and badges while competing against your Facebook friends, your classmates, or other members of the Vocabulary.com community.
How to use
1) Firstly, open www.vocabulary.com 2) Secondly, make an account
3) Then, learn the language through the vocabulary game
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher gives the task based on the vocabulary.com game.
2) Based on the task, the teacher gives instructions to the student to present what vocabulary they have learned.
3) The teacher also can see the parameter of the students.
35. The Easy World of English (www.easyworldofenglish.com) Yohana Eva Mau Kasi
[email protected] Description
The Easy Word of English is the website that will allow you to learn English in an easy and comfortable way. The system has been designed in such a way that it will allow students from secondary or senior high school to advance at their own pace, repeat a lesson as many times as it is necessary and also learn grammar, vocabulary, and readings. This web comes from St. Manhattan, New York.
Benefits
1) The advantage of this website is:
2) The students will learn about grammar and reading.
3) The students can have a new vocabulary.
What is new?
1) The two uniqueness of this application are:
2) The students are not only learning about English but also can learn other languages.
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3) There is also a picture dictionary that is composed of commonly used vocabulary words with pictures and pronunciation.
How to use
1) The first way is going to the website.
2) The next is that we can choose one of the topics inside the website.
3) And then, click the first topic of grammar or reading.
4) Choosing the level of grammar.
5) Finally, learning the sentences inside the website.
Classroom implementation
1) Firstly, the teachers ask the students to go to the website.
2) Then, there are grammar, pronunciation, reading and pictures dictionary in the background.
3) The students can go to one of the topics, for example in Grammar.
4) The students can choose the first level of the topic.
5) The students can learn and even practice the sentence inside the website.
36. The English Page website (www.englishpage.com) Yohana Eva Mau Kasi
[email protected] Description
The English Page website is created by Language Dynamics with the purpose of offering “free English lessons and ESL/EFL resources. This website can be used by secondary or senior high school and also business people.
Benefits
The people especially students and teachers can learn English freely.
We can also learn English tutorials featuring interactive exercises and resources ranging from grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening and online dictionaries.
What is new?
Unlike a typical electronic book, this grammar book has 156 links to the related grammar topics within and beyond English Page.
How to use
1) First of all, go to the link of this website.
2) Opening one of the skills.
3) After that, choosing an English that related to your interest topic.
4) Then, going to the materials and learn it.
5) Doing some exercise based on the topic you have chosen.
Classroom implementation
1) The topic is about Modals and for secondary level.
2) The teacher asks the students to open the website.
3) After that, the teacher explains about his/her topic.
4) Then, ask the students to open the topic of modals inside the website.
5) Finally, asking the students to do some exercises inside the website.
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37. BBC Learning English (www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish) Nuzul Qurrota Sukma
[email protected] Description
BBC Learning English, inspiring language learning since 1943. It is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. It provides teachers and students free resources and activities especially through its website.
Benefits
BBC offers the news with vocabulary support, exercises, video and audio features with related testing, a serial story with viewer input, a special grammar and vocabulary section, and features just for students.
What is new?
The contents are presented in a nice way. You'll never get bored for so many choices trigger your eagerness to learn more and more.
How to use
1. Access the website at www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish and see the encouraging contents.
2. There are courses, features, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, news, business, for teachers and change language. Choose one that interests you to look at.
Enjoy the content.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher can start with the course since there are options for the level of it.
2) Then find one interesting and relevant material for students, for example, "wish"
for intermediate students. There is a video and transcript below, then the material and also some exercises to check students' understanding.
38. Fluentu (www.fluentu.com) Nuzul Qurrota Sukma
[email protected] Description
on the go world-wide real-world accessible video website which is now available on the app.
Benefits
1. Fluentu brings the real-world video on language learning.
2. Subtitled, translated and annotated by professional translators 3. Integrated dictionary provides context-specific definitions.
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1) Featured with an interactive caption on real-world videos completed with subtitle and translation.
2) Just click on any word to see a clear definition in-context along with example sentences.
How to use
1) Access the link at //www.fluentu.com/
2) Choose free 14 days option for the start and you may choose 90-day free trial for schools
3) If you find it useful for your carrier (general/teaching), just continue to get the full version access.
Classroom implementation
1) Teachers can start with just 10 students in the class.
2) separate students into different classes
3) Teachers can easily add more teachers to multi-teacher accounts 4) It is easy to administer with centralized billing
39. Moodle (moodle.org)