Vidcast - Collaborative Learning

In this video, I have discussed the importance of collaborative learning, which shoulde be applied in an ESL or EFL classroom. Collaborative learning enables students to interact with one another and cooperate while doing the activities. Unlike individual learning, students can ask each other for information, monitor one another and evaluate ideas. Thus, allowing the students' self-confidence to develop as they take on different roles while working together.

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Duolingo

Duolingo is another popular language learning app and it is the most downloaded one in the world so far. It offers 85 different courses in 24 languages. Gamification is poured into each lesson; your hearts keep your lesson alive and when you answer incorrectly, you lose a heart. If you run out of hearts, you simply just start over again. There's a streak count to motivate you to stay on track by displaying the number of days you spent learning a language in a row. It has in-lesson grading so you can immediately see if your answers are correct or not. Each lesson includes a variety of skills such as speaking, listening and translation etc. with multiple choice challenges. Additionally, it can be easily used in schools as thousands of teachers are already using it for their students' development.

Canva

I used canva to create a poster for students at lower levels of proficiency to display past-perfect tense, as it is quite difficult for some students to understand this grammar tense and it would be of great assistance for them to see the timeline of the tense in a visual manner. Basically, this poster can be printed out and hung in the class for this purpose. You can use canva to create the other needs of your students as posters too to use as visual aids in the class.

Mind Meister

I used Mind Meister to assist me in making a mind map that has all the terms that is related to a 'task'. This mind map will be useful for prospective teachers while designing a task for task-based learning. Also, the link is below too in case you would like to access the website: https://www.mindmeister.com/1273360467/task

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