There is a full demo version available if you want to try it out for a limited time. I also reviewed Karaoke4English (both iOS/Android), an interesting app that combine reading/audio versions of text and vocabulary revision.
I also reviewed Practice English Grammar 1 for Android.
I also made some suggestions for getting started with mobile learning at the beginning of term:
Suggestions for getting started with Mobile Learning
- If your school/college/university has wireless, find out how to connect smartphones to it and go through it or print it out for students. This ensures that they are able to connect to the internet during the lesson.
- recommend useful apps to students to install on their smartphones that will help them learn English. You can get suggestions from this facebook page . I have also created a Google presentation with some suggestions for ESL apps. There are also several blogs where you can find out about education apps: Apps in Education, Mobile Tech Learning, Education Apps Review or Android 4 Schools . These sites are not specifically about ESL, but many of the apps are relevant for ESL students.
- (suggested by Rob Lewis) To get students familiar using their phones in class, get them to note down homework/test dates etc on the calendar on their phones.
- devote a section of a lesson to students looking at their own/each other’s mobile phones, exploring what functions they have (e.g. internet, radio, voice recorder) and discussing how they could be used to improve their English.
- encourage them to use dictionaries on their smartphones to quickly look up words. Here is a blog post I wrote about free dictionary apps for android (though many of them are also available for iphone)
- set up a Posterous blog for them to contribute to as a class. Add their email addresses so they can contribute and then they can send pictures/text directly from their mobile phone. Get them to tell you about their weekends for discussion on Monday morning.
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