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Using apps in the language classroom
Pete Sharma
Overview
Distinctions
Using apps in courses
Over to you
Do you have afavourite app?
Shazam
Solar walk
Operating systems
Android Apple IOS Windows phone
Classroom vs ‘On the move’
Nicky Hockly
Authentic vs ELT
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Cost:£13.99
Free vs cost
Basic version vsPremium content
In-app purchase
Native – web-based
‘iterative publishing’
V.1
V.1
V.2
Evaluating apps
“They are simply teaching materials”
What is the pedagogical justification?
What is the learning aim?
Think about your teaching context and how to exploit them
Practical ideas
1) Grammar
2) Vocabulary
3) Listening
4) Reading
5) Speaking
6) Phonology
Calendar app
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Stocks
The weather app! Visual Grammar(Richmond)
GrammarApps
The Big
Picture(Richmond)
Grammar practice appsVocabulary storage apps
e.g. Quizlet
Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary app
Lis tening
• In the news
• Free
• ‘Podcast app’
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Reading
Skimming
IELTS app
Newsmart Maze
Escape from Pizza Palace [Richmond]
Voting tools
Kahoot
Prezi app
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Voice recognition
Siri
Google Voice
Voice to text
Brainstorming tools
Sounds
Apps
Flipping e.g. Educreations
AR apps e.g. Aurasma / Layar / Cornelson Page player
VR apps e.g. Bosch / Samung apps
Download a copy of Pete’s e-book on Apps
www.smashwords.com
iPad
Sony reader
Kindle
Nook
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