Yohana Eva Mau Kasi
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PORO is an application that is focusing on speaking and listening skills. This application comes from the UK. It usually can be used by the students from secondary to the senior high school level.
Benefits
108 The benefits of this application:
1) The students can learn how to pronounce an exact word when they speak and improve the vocabulary of English.
2) The students can improve their listening skills too.
What is new?
The difference in this application with others are:
This application can give an example of dialogues in English.
The students can directly listen to native speakers.
How to use
The use of this application is as followed;
1) Firstly, the students should download PORO in the play store.
2) Secondly, before going to use this application, the teacher should give an example of how to use it.
3) Next, the students can log in to this application by using G-mail or Facebook.
4) After loading this application, the students enter the levels of dialogue that depend on their level.
5) Finally, they try to listen and speak the dialogues of English.
Classroom implementation
One example of how to use this application is that the students can choose an expression of dialogue of asking and giving information in English and try to practice in front of the classroom.
36. E-learning App Yohana Eva Mau Kasi
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E-learning App is a social networking website for education which connects students, teachers, parents and school or institution in a safe and unique network. It helps students from secondary and senior high school to submit assignments, clear their doubts, post their talent, and chatting with teachers and classmates. This application comes from India.
Benefits
The following benefits of this application are:
1) It helps teachers to save time, keep classes organized.
2) It can improve communication with students and parents, monitor students’
progress and know-how students responded to the teaching of a particular class.
What is new?
The E-Learning app that makes it different is helping parents to keep updated with their child’s progress. It also providing school management material for free.
How to use
The steps for using this application are:
1) Firstly, the students download the application of the E-Learning App.
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2) Secondly, the teachers try to explain how to use it.
3) Next, the students enter the application and go to the student login.
4) After that, the students fill their username and password to enter to this application.
5) After opening the application, the students can get and learn new information or task given by the teacher.
Classroom implementation
Here are the ways or implementations which are applied in the classroom:
1) The teachers will come and teach the students about the topic of English.
2) In the middle of the class, the teacher asks the students to open the application.
3) After opening the application, the students try to do some assignments which have been into the application.
4) After finishing the assignments, the students have to submit the tasks inside the application.
5) After that, the teacher will give feedback on the students’ assignments.
37. TEDtube: Study English Nuzul Qurrota Sukma
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TEDTube - Study English efficiently for TED Study English efficiently by listening Popular TED talks Videos funnier, easier with multi-subtitles without any textbooks anytime and anywhere. TEDtube is an excellent way to learn English effectively. This App is NOT a TED's official app. TED does not endorse or sponsor this app in any way. All TED Talks subject to the creative commons license found at ted.com
Benefits
TEDTube will be beneficial for you to quickly improve your listening skills and proficiency completed with the transcript on each video.
What is new?
Immersing yourself in entertaining and educative talk while on the bus or during your trip.
Multi - subtitles (a written version of the audio). This means that you can listen and read at the same time, or look at a transcript if one part of a talk confuses you.
How to use
You can see TED Talks in each language.
1) Download favourite and Talk videos
2) At the same time, you can open multi-subtitle (English and your native Language) 3) Show both subtitles when watching TED talks
4) Change the speaker speed that helps you to easier to understand the talks 5) Quick search support
Classroom implementation
Teachers can use this application by asking students to access this app on their phone.
It can be used as a group discussion or individual task.
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The task can be in a form of finding the difficult words, retail what the talks is about (written/oral), and as a homework duty to let students know that this app is time and space limitless so that it can be used anywhere.
38. Babbel
Nuzul Qurrota Sukma
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The company was founded in August 2007 by Markus Witte and Thomas Holl. Babbel is operated by Lesson Nine GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Babbel is an online learning system that allows you to develop your language skills in a simple, modern and efficient way.
Benefits
The advantages of learning a language using Babbel is sustainability. The contents are related to one another with enjoyment and the same situation happens in real-life usage.
After that, you will find it no longer boring about studying but then find the feel of becoming part of the situation.
What is new?
What makes this app different from any other app is that this app offers you a clear way of learning and optimize it to the fullest by providing the authentic material from the target language to be learned.
How to use
1) After installing this app, open it and register with your email or google account freely.
2) Then choose your native language and your target language.
3) Join the course which is available as a free material. The others will be accessible for premium account / full version.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher can lead the student to learn a language from this app to choose the native and target language.
2) Then choose the course which is only available in order (from basic to advance) to build the sustainability condition.
3) At last, there is a review option to see the progress of learning.
39. Busuu
Giyaning Rahma
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Busuu is one of the mobile applications for language learning. This application can be used for teachers, senior high school students to high-level education anywhere and anytime inside or outside of the classroom.
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Busuu can be used for teachers to help those providing facilities in teaching the students. Meanwhile, Busuu can be used for students to learn many languages with or without connection with the internet.
What is new?
This application will communicate the material between teachers and students. It makes students become critical thinking and creative in solving the problem that happened in the teaching-learning process by using this application.
How to use
1) Download and install in google play store.
2) Sign in with an email,
3) Decide what the learner is going to learn,
4) Do the placement test for deciding the level of the learner.
5) Do the tasks based on vocabulary, dialogue, quiz, and conversation.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher uses the lesson in this application.
2) The teacher asks students to answer questions and understanding.
3) The student answers the question correctly.
4) The teacher explains clearly or feedback on the topic of students learning.
40. Learn English Through Story Giyaning Rahma
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Learn English Through Story is one of the mobile applications to improve in every area of language learning. This application provides many stories with transcription and audio that can be used for teachers, senior high school students to high-level education, and parents.
Benefits
Learn English Through Story improves listening skills because the learner will hear many vocabularies. This application also improves speaking skills by communicating what the story is going to talk about.
What is new?
Learn English Through Story has a special feature as soon as the user reads the story it will be marked as Read. Then, this application provides the option to mark it as unread if a user wants to set it as Unread.
How to use
1) Download and install in google play store.
2) Decide what the topic is going to learn.
3) Listen to the audio and try to understand vocabulary.
4) Enjoy the application
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1) The teacher uses the story in this application.
2) The teacher asks students to listen to the dialogue with transcription.
3) The teacher asks the students to retell in front of their friends.
4) The teacher gives feedback from students’ understanding.
41. 1000 English Stories Shin Puan Maharani
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1000 English Stories is an application that speaks to us daily with good stories. This application released on March 2017. Using this application can make the students creative to write the story and critical thinking to create story.
Benefits
1000 English Stories make the students improve their reading and listening skill and increase their vocabulary.
What is new?
This application is free. As a result, the students or the children can read all the stories from this application everywhere and anywhere.
How to use
Download the application on play store or app store After downloading the application, open the application You choose the title of the story that you want to read
Classroom implementation
Teacher gives the instruction for students to read one of the stories in the application After reading the story, the teacher give the assignment that contain the questions (5W+1H)
42. Neo Study
Shin Puan Maharani
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This application was created by the company from AS, California in 2018. This application can improve the communication skill and critical thinking of the students because they learn about speaking and also increase their vocabulary.
Benefits
Neo study apps can improve speaking skills and pronunciation. Besides that, the application can increase vocabulary.
What is new?
Inside of the application, there is native speaker that speaks in English and you should record your voice to communicate with them.
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Download the application through play store or app store Click “TRY NOW” in the application
Click “GO”
Choose one of the menus that you want to learn Record your voice
Classroom implementation
The teacher gives an example of how to use this application The teacher chooses some students to try to record their voice
43. Newsela Student Surya Agung Wijaya
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Newsela Student is one app to improve students’ reading skills. This application comes from United State.
Benefits
The teacher can create a class and provide reading material, assignments, quizzes, annotations, and power words. It has 5 reading levels.
What is new?
Different from online newspapers, the teacher can provide an assignment to check students’ understanding.
How to use
1) Download Newsela Student on Playstore for Android or App Store for iOS 2) Enroll with Google Account
3) Join the class by filling in class code
4) Read the article from reading levels of Max, 1130L, 1050L, 850L, and 600L 5) Do assignment
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher could use Newsela Student for pre-class activities 2) The teacher also gives a homework from Newsela Student
3) In the class, students work in a group and discuss the text from the phones 4) Students make annotation from their phones
5) The teacher could give quizzes after a discussion through Newsela Student
44. Tinycards
Surya Agung Wijaya
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Tinycards is a digital flashcard for learning vocabulary. Duolingo team is behind this application from the United States.
114 Benefits
Students could learn English vocabulary with pictures and sounds.
What is new?
The teacher is able to make an original flashcard for students. Therefore, students could learn vocabulary based on student needs.
How to use
1) Download Tinycards
2) Enroll as a student, a teacher, or both of them
3) Find flashcard based on the topic or make your own flashcard
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher could provide Tinycards as pre-vocabulary before students learn reading.
2) Students could work in peer with Tinycards and make a question and answer with a peer.
3) Students practice to read the text.
4) The teacher could provide a quiz based on Tinycards.
45. Google Expeditions Agustina Tyarakanita
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Google expeditions is one of the contributions of Google toward the educational field.
As an immersive learning and immersive tool, Google Expeditions lets you go on the trip of 360 degrees camera in Visual Reality (VR) and 3 D objects in Augmented Reality (AR). There are a thousand scenes, such as a landmark, underwater, historical places, and many scenes that you can explore in this application.
Benefits
In a class such as in the art and creative writing class, students can be inspired by what they see on the virtual words which improve their creativity and critical thinking skill that was needed in the 21st-century learning. Then, there are some features, such as reading materials, vocabulary, and a list of question-related to material that can help the students to improve their reading comprehension and increase the student’s vocabulary.
What is new?
The “new” from this app is make an “authentic learning” situation, bring up the virtual world into the classroom; teachers do not need to bring the students outside to make them see the real world. By using Google Expeditions, teachers and students do not need to travel far away.
How to use
1) The application is free and can be downloaded on the play store and app store, and don’t forget to sign in by using your gmail account.
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2) To get started, you should prepare the tools that needed:
3) the compatible devices 4) Wi-Fi connection
5) VR Box or Google Cardboard
Classroom implementation
1) Google Expeditions was positioning the teachers as a “guide” to lead their classroom on an expedition trip.
2) There are some features that can be used to check their student’s participation in the classroom.
3) There is personalized audio-visual feedback that will help students identify precisely what they need to improve
4) Student can even share the recording and the sound wave image of their pronunciation with the teacher via email, directly from the app.
46. Socrative
Agustina Tyarakanita
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Socrative is a product of Showbie Inc; there are two apps you need for Socrative student app and teacher app. In the Socrative Student app, students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats. Then, in Socrative Teacher app, educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets, and space races all with their Socrative Teacher app.
Benefits
The teacher app provides a report on the performance of the students did and allowed the teachers to get feedback from each student.
Student App, joining the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code, the students do not need to make an account.
What is new?
The app can be used to review and revise vocabulary and language points. The app aids differentiation as each student is responding through their device and at their own pace.
How to use
1) To get started using Socrative, register for a Socrative Teacher account.
2) Your Socrative account work with other Socrative Apps and via all browsers at Socrative.com.
3) Students can connect to your unique room by opening their apps or joining your room at socrative.com on any device.
Classroom implementation
1) This app has an application for Teacher; this is helping them to view the progress of the students
2) Socrative for teacher help the teachers to choose the best way to measure the student’s understanding through formative assessment such as; quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets, and space races.
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M. Yoga Oktama [email protected] Description
Podcast Brish Council is an app that helps learners to develop their listening skill. This app can be freely accessed by learners from Google Play Store and I Phone App Store.
Benefits
This app is very beneficial for those who want to improve their listening skill.
Moreover, people can understand several accents from several countries.
What is new?
With this app, while listening to the audio, learners can read the transcript. This will ease them to understand what actually the speaker is saying.
How to use
Learners can freely use it by downloading the app from Google Play Store and App Store. Then, they can open certain topic and download the audio by clicking rectangle icon. When the audio saved, it can replay without downloading again.
Classroom implementation
This app can be implemented in classroom acvity. Teacher can play the audio of this app for several mes, and they can give queson based of the informaon of the audio. For evaluaon, teachers can show the transcript to show students what they were actually listening to.
48. Facebook
M. Yoga Oktama [email protected] Description
Facebook is very common since two decades ago. Not only for chang, Facebook can be used as media in teaching learning, including English. The app that is very common to use eases learners and teachers to use it.
Benefits
Both student and teacher used to use it There is 'group' tool that can be used to sharing information, and change It can promote the activities of students if they are ordered to post their work
What is new?
Like many other apps, Facebook can be easily used by students and teachers. They seem to get used in using it.
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With Facebook, learners can join some English group and share informaon with people who have same desire. With 'live' tool in this app, teacher can make online course that can easily accessed by students.
Classroom implementation
This app can be used to support learning acvies especially in assignment. Teachers can use this app as media to submit students' work. They can ask students to make video and submit it on Facebook with certain hastag (#), for instance #speakingassignment
#listeningtask, and #wringmeeng2.
49. Voscreen
Fatimah Zahro Assidiq
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Voscreen is a free app from Wharton Business School (USA). It is used to improve pronaunciation, vocabulary mastery, reading, and listening skill.
Benefits
Voscreen is for all ranging from kids to adults Voscreen increases motivation to learn English
What is new?
There is a movie video clip, music videos, a cartoon, and documentaries.
How to use
1) Download in Google Playstore or Apple Store.
2) Sign up by using Google email.
3) Choose a level of Voscreen.
4) Select the language that we want to learn.
5) Let’s play the videos and enjoy it.
Classroom implementation
1) The teacher asks the students to create an account.
2) The teacher guides the student to set the App
3) The teacher chooses the related materials for the students
4) The teacher assess the assignments and also gives scores for the students
50. Quizizz
Fatimah Zahro Assidiq
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Quizizz is an application for improving reading skills and critical thinking of the students. This app comes from India.