VR - Virtual Reality

''Virtual reality is the term used to describe a three-dimensional, computer generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.'' (Virtual Reality Society, 2017, https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/what-is-virtual-reality.html)
Basically, virtual reality enables you to enter an imaginary world, in which even you can bring to your class for your students to experience learning in a completely different manner. I do agree that there are quite expensive ones which might not be affordable; however, there are also cheap ones (such as the one above) which provides an opportunity to experience VR by using a smartphone with downloaded apps such as Cardboard, Full Dive VR etc. As provided by the second image (the one at the bottom), simply by placing your phone in front of the glasses, you can literally feel like you're a part of that world. When using these VR glasses in your teaching, you may face a few difficulties, such as not having a sufficient amount of glasses for all of the students. However, I'm sure that you are well aware of the fact that we live in an age that technology is the prime of. Thus, I believe that you will tackle any obstacle that might come your way while trying to use VR for the sake of your students.

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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.

Mondly

Mondly is a language learning app that enables users to learn 33 languages for free and it is used by 40 million people in over 190 countries. The 33 languages are British English, American English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Romanian, Afrikaans, Croatian, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Indonesian. There is the free content and the premium content of Mondly. The free content is obviously much more limited compared to the premium one as you don't have to pay money; however, there is still enough content for you to be able to the basic vocabulary of any of the listed languages. Personally, I would only recommend Mondly for vocabulary learning unless you decide to get the premium version of the app, which also includes the grammatical aspect of language.

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