Voice typing with Google Docs
It really is great that Google has this feature. How to use it in language learning? The first thing that came to my mind was to
help students check their pronunciation and get immediate feedback on it with
the help of voice typing. What we did was pretty simple. The students had a
text in the target language, which in our case is Finnish. They read the text
and observed if it was similar to the original one. They often wanted to try several times to make the pronunciation match with the text. The feedback is instant, which is great. It's also really easy for them to practise pronunciation this way at home.
Do you have any other ideas?
Quizizz
When I heard about Quizizz, I was curious to see what it
has to offer in comparison with, for example, Kahoot and Socrative which my
students really like. Turns out Quizizz also offers a homework option. The
gaming factor is also there, but instead of time pressure, the students can now
do the quiz in peace and quiet with the help of any material they can think of.
Highly recommended!
Google Slides
Better late than never! I have only recently discovered
the wonderland of Google Slides for language learning classes. What a great way
to collaborate, differentiate, learn together and so much more!
Presently my students are practising the use of past
tense both in affirmative and negative sentences in Finnish. For revision I
created a presentation with each slide containing only two sentences: the first
one being affirmative and the second one negative, which appears with a click.
The students worked in pairs and took turns in reading the affirmative
sentences and then trying to form the negative ones and then checking with a click if they got it right. It worked really well and
the students got a lot of practise! Simple and useful!
I was pleased to find a lot of information both in
Finnish and English on how to use Google Slides in the classroom. I very much
like the idea of creating a presentation and giving each group a slide number
to work, and there are so many other cool ways to use this tool. To read about them, here's a link to a crowd sourced presentation initiated by
Alice Keeler and Hans Tullmann.
Quizizz in the classroom
Practice makes perfect
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