![]() ![]() As such, it may appeal more to test-conscious parents than to their kids. It’s more of a post-lesson quiz than an attempt to introduce new vocabulary items in an attention-holding way, even if the picture are superficially attractive. That would be just the opposite of the app’s present design: spelling displayed automatically, pronunciation an option.įinally, for a teaching tool the app is a lazy teacher. The form you use to do this depends on the Citation Style you are using: APA American Psychological Association Style is often used by history, economics, psychology and political science. Summarize: take the key ideas and paraphrase them and identify the source. Of course, some (many?) users (or their parents) will find the pronunciation less of a focus than do I, who can’t recommend this app to students of English as a foreign language, where I think it might have a market if re-recorded.īut in that case it would also be advisable to automatically play the pronunciation of the new word on each page and have the spelling display only as an option button, to improve listening comprehension skills. Paraphrase: put the information into your own words and identify the source. Not as noticable but still disappointing to my ear: the clarity of the first-syllable accent in “lemon” vs that in “cherry.” Is the speaker just bored or what? I tried the first level, fruits, and found at least three words with the accent placed on the “wrong” (nonstandard dialect?) syllable: This app shows promise, but suffers from its choice of a non-standard female narrator for pronunciation of the vocabulary items.
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