Apps 4 EFL

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Apps 4 EFL
Engaging online study for learners of EFL/ESL

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Activities

Auto Cloze

Practice your reading, listening, and vocabulary skills with automatically generated cloze tests.

Converse

Practice conversations with your computer via speech recognition and speech synthesis.

Dictate

Learn the spellings of words and phrases through typing dictation.

Error Spotter

Improve your English grammar accuracy by spotting common errors.

Fight the Fakes

Test your vocabulary knowledge by spotting real words hidden among fake words.

Griddle

Assemble sentences and words and improve your English spelling and grammar.

Lyric Learner

Practice your listening skills and learn new words with your favorite songs.

Match Select

Learn the meanings of words and phrases by matching them against the clock.

Match Type

Learn the meanings of words and phrases by typing them against the clock.

Photo Match

Practice your listening skills by matching spoken captions to photos.

Phrase Match

Practice your listening skills by matching spoken questions and replies.

Pirate or Pilot

Practice distinguishing between minimal pairs.

Prefix Me

Select the correct prefixes (un, in, mis, etc) to make negative words.

Sentence Builder

Practice English grammar by translating sentences from your first language.

Vid Quiz

Improve your listening comprehension with a variety of video quizzes.

Vocalyzer

Practice your English pronunciation with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).

Which Witch

Practice distinguishing between homophones.

Assignments

Custom Cloze

Generate custom reading or listening cloze tests from any text.

Essay Rank

Create, submit, and automatically rank English written reports.

NVLT

Test your students' vocabulary knowledge with the New Vocabulary Level Test.

Peer Grade

Allow students to grade and give feedback to other students in their class.

Quick Speak

Create, submit, and automatically rank English spoken reports.

Tools

ER Level Check

Check your recommended level for graded readers.

Manga Maker

Easily make short manga-style comics.

Platformer

Platform-style vocabulary learning game (BETA - Desktop Only).

Pop Translation

Read any English text easily with pop-up translations.

Real Time

Check students' vocabulary knowledge in real time.

Talk Corpus

A searchable corpus of over 2400 TED Talk videos.

Text Genie

Get tokens, types, lemmas, n-grams, and more for any text.

Text-to-Flash

Automatically convert texts to flashcards and export to CSV.

Timer

A classroom timer with a variety of alarm sounds.

Press

EFLNotes.com
“Grassroots language technology is about teachers and students developing digital tools to address classroom needs and situations... Paul Raine, developer of Apps 4 EFL, kindly answered some questions about creating digital tools for use with students.”

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EnglishPost.org
“WikiCloze is an awesome [resource for] English learners, especially for those who use Wikipedia regularly.”

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Digital Mobile Language Learning
“I thought it would be fitting to introduce a website where the software designer is actually in the trenches teaching university-level EFL classes by day and burning the midnight oil programming at night.”

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GetGreatEnglish.com
“I think [Apps 4 EFL is] a really useful website, especially considering that it’s free. Go on, take a look!”

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Tomodachi Kyoto
“(Manga Maker) allows students to change characters and backgrounds to create a 4 panel comic strip... The animation style and familiar backgrounds help to illicit real life conversations.”

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NGSL Blog
“Does Paul Raine ever sleep? Seems almost every day I open my computer he’s created yet another set of useful online tools for students and teachers.”

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