Quizlet:
Learning new words by reading an article or newspaper or from dictionaries is an old and mundane practice and somehow, I can't really imagine 21st Century learners doing so. I came across this brilliant website named Quizlet which enables teachers to create activities and quizes helping their learners learn and test vocabulary in a very interesting manner.
The teachers can introduce new words to the students, help them learn and then test the learners on them all for FREE. The teachers (using as a teacher option) and students are required to do a basic sign-up for creating an account.
Although the tool is free, however, its advance features such as using your voice to pronounce the word) require a paid subscription.
Once the teacher has made the account, the quiz can be made and shared with the class online on Quizlet itself.
Quizlet allows students to practice the vocabulary in different ways such as: Flashcards, Learn, Speller and Test.
The easy to use website also allows the teacher to keep a check on the progress of the class, that is, which student used which activity to learn and practice, the time and date of practice, the score of the test, the overall performance of the class, etcetera.
I find this tool very interesting and would like to use it as another way of flipped classroom as a weekly activity, such as, 10 new words per week, introducing wordlist on Mondays and taking a revision on every Friday.
The following video can help you view and use Quizlet :
Hope you like this tool! Try it out and let me know how it was.
That's a very very useful tool in vocabulary teaching, I will definitely use it in the future teaching. Actually, when I did my second peer teaching in my professional practice class, I used this tool to do scatter game which was really motivating. Another thing I noticed is that you can learn vocabulary in different languages!
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