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ICTs IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING Apps chart

APPLICATION/WEBSITE PRACTICUM USEFULNESS TASK/ACTIVITY


o VISME It is a great tool that can be useful to The teacher presents a set of tips
present vocabulary with videos and and tutorials to pronounce different
audio. By using this webpage we can sounds.
have a more engaging presentation.
o WORD SEARCH This is a wonderful online application Students are asked to create a word
GENERATOR that will allow teachers to create cloud related to words that share a
activities to present vocabulary for the same pronunciation pattern.
first time. It might be useful to look up
for e very single word.
o VOKI This is a great platform that allows Students are asked to record
students to record themselves speaking. themselves pronouncing specific
Teacher then can hear students and words. Then teacher can evaluate if
evaluate pronunciation. students are pronouncing well the
specific sounds.
o BUBBL This is another useful tool to create mind Students must organize a set of
maps. words according to the
pronunciation characteristics that
they share.
o ANIMAKER. This is a tool to create presentations as a Students must watch a video
video in will be more interesting than the created by the teacher and they
slides of power point. have to write down words that are
pronounced with a specific sound
pattern or phoneme.
o BLABBERIZE This is a tool to record an audio and add Students must create an avatar and
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it to an image or photo. they have to describe a set of


pictures given by the teacher.
Students must get focused on a
specific phoneme.
o LETTER GENERATOR It is a tool to create a letter; it will help Students are going to use IPA
you to organize the information in the symbols to write a letter. Then they
correct way. Further it will help students send it to a partner and this person
to practice writing. must decipher what the text says.
o ANIMOTO It is another useful tool to create Teachers can use this application to
presentations instead of power point. It introduce new topics related to
will work as a video to which you can phonemes or connected speech.
also add a song.
o TAGUL It is a tool which can be used to take Students are encouraged to
notes about a brainstorming. brainstorm words with minimal
pairs which are similar.
o VOKI It is a tool that let students to record Students must choose a character
their voices and then the audio will be and then they record themselves to
added to a character. They can choose animate the avatar. Then students
the one that they like more. There are a must choose the most interesting
lot of different characters, dogs, famous avatar in the class.
people, men, women, etc.
o BOARD GAME It will be useful to practice speaking and The teacher create a board game
MAKER previous knowledge. Board games will including the IPA of words. Students
engage students to speak and interact must figure out the word that is
with classmates in an interesting way. being represented.
There are different models for your board
games.
o SPIDERSCRIBE This tool is very important if we want to Students can classify a set of words
have our students organizing vocabulary according to the characteristics
or concepts in a graphical way. they have in terms of
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pronunciation.
o GIPHY Students will have a very interactive and Students must create a gif by using
engaging tool that will allow them to images that represent a set of IPA
create gifs. symbols given by the teacher.
o WITTY COMIC It is useful to create a comic however Students should create an animated
only tree scenes are allowed. story using IPA symbols as the main
characters of the plot.
o TEZTMOS This is probably the most useful tool that Teacher will design a theoretical
we have used in the course. It allows exam regarding to explicit
teachers to create all types of tests with knowledge of pronunciation topics.
multiple answers, True and False
selection and Fill in the GAP. Besides it is
free.
o CLOZE TEST This is a wonderful app that will allow Teacher will create a test and
CREATOR teachers to evaluate the students skill he/she will omit some words that
to place the correct word or phrase in have a tricky pronunciation.
contextualized texts. Students must look for them and
then they have to record
themselves pronouncing them.
o DVOLVER It is a tool to create videos or something Students must create a plot by
in context. It lets you to use different using only IPA symbols. Then they
characters and some texts in clouds send it to other partners and they
which show an interaction. have to recreate the story by using
the original text.

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