Top 8 iPad apps for ESL students | Voxxi

iPad In ESL (Photo/ thestaffroom101 via ipadonic)

Great Apps for English learners!

Top 8 iPad apps for ESL students | Voxxi

Young learners now prefer using electronic devices for their learning. iPad is one of the most popular and commonly chosen device for learners. The apps introduced by Harbison are recommended for various level of young English learners to practice their English skills on their own at everywhere with their iPad.

The introduced apps can develop learners lower-level language processing skills from phonic to sentence building and later learners can practice much higher-level processing skills to enhance their grammar knowledge and improve fluency on English.

Some of these apps are free but some are not. Check out more detail information on each app and choose ones that are most fit for you!

Evernote's SKITCH - Show Your Creativity

Evernote's extraordinary feature, SKITCH: a visual communication tool, is available for both Mac and Windows. 

It is different from other video chat tools that have already been out and used by teachers and students. Teachers can view and share an image with their students via Skitch, and using various tools teachers can give a lecture and specific instrctions for their students. 

Use more authentic pictures/images for our lessons.

While viewing a picture with a class, you can edit and draw marks on your picture. You can also edit some pictures that are relevant for your presentation topics. Encourage your students to be creative by showing your creativity first!

Image retrieved at Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/115827021640275083/

English may be the easiest language but at the same time be the hardest language to learn for those whose first language is not English. This picture is showing how complex and confused the language, English, is.

But here is one very important characteristic of learning English that we should remember. Watching movies in English, keeping a daily journal in English, and finding an English speaker to have a conversation in English are all important, but if our heart and mind are not ready to accept the whole culture of English speaking nature, it would be very hard and confused like in the statements in the picture above. 

Before you begin to learn OR to teach English, make sure to have a very clear purpose or goal of doing so (either you learn English or teach English to the speakers of other languages).