http://www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm
About it:
A site that will help students improve their pronunciation skills and vocabulary while having fun.
Significance:
- Great tools available for all ages.
- Allows students to develop their pronunciation and to learn basic vocabulary.
- Great for beginners where they can learn the alphabet by listening to the audio and match the sound with the script.
- It's great fun because of the games available.
- Allows students to work autonomously where they can receive input and produce output.
- Allows rote learning which i sometimes believe is beneficial to certain types of students.
- Also, gives space to an interactional approach, where the teacher can manipulate the games in a way of arranging groups of students to compete against each other.
Suggestions:
Inside Classrooms:
- A facilitating tool which could be useful for warm-ups or oral dictations.
- You could ask students to identify certain objects that you would point to and you could ask them later on to write the words as a kind of dictation
- The games available could be used as group activities where students could get into teams and compete against each other to finish a certain task.
Outside Classrooms :
- Great tool to use at home.
- Students can practice, learn and develop target language and have fun at the same time.
- Parents of young learners could use to help review their kids vocabulary and pronunciation.
- Great for beginners!!
Shortcomings:
- Its a great tool for beginners only, because the vocabulary available is quite simple.
- I also think that it might be boring and worn out after the students have learned the vocabularies available.
- Limited amount of material.
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