Top 10 Apps for Learning English
iPads or tablet PCs are the most wonderful tools for learning and
teaching English. Students are more attracted towards iPads as compared
to other devices, and use them to access online resources in their
classrooms. With the help of the thousands of education and language
apps available in Apple’s app store, students make effective use of the
iPad to learn in an interactive environment. Given below is a list of
some of the best iPad apps for learning and teaching English.
1. Grammar Up
Grammar is the heart of any language and, thus, the Grammar Up app is
one of the most highly recommended apps for English learners. This app
is specifically designed for people who want to improve their grammar,
vocabulary and word selection. It consists of more than 1800
multiple-choice questions grouped under twenty different grammar
categories.
2. English LaunchPad
The English LaunchPad is an app especially designed for English
learners and teachers. This app offers a complete package that is full
of useful information to help boost your English learning experience.
The common features of the English LaunchPad app include practice
exercises, lesson plans, grammar structures, whiteboard, quiz generator,
student tracking, student roaster, translator and flash cards.
3. Socrative
If you want a great tool for creating instant formative and summative
assessments, then Socrative is the app for you! Socrative is a
cloud-based app by which teachers can easily create a variety of polls,
quizzes and various other practice exercises for students, while
monitoring and keeping a check on the students’ response.
4. Learn English The Fun Way
“Learn English the fun way” is an amazing app for grammar and
matching lessons in which English learners get to do simple exercises
such as matching an animal or a short description of something to its
picture.
5. SpeakingPal
Recommended as one of the best apps for English educators and
learners, SpeakingPal allow users to record and compare their speech
with a native English speaker. This amazing app combines video with
automatic speech recognition software that tests your English speaking
skills. You just have to speak with a video character and get immediate
response on how well you said and pronounced all your English words. In
short, this app basically understands and rates your speech.
6. Grammaropolis
The Grammaropolis app can be called the school of grammar. It shows
the parts of speech in the form of animated characters that have
different personalities based on their respective roles in a particular
sentence. This app makes learning grammar more fun and exciting.
7. iFPoems
iFPoems is a fantastic app for poetry lovers. This app consists of a
great collection of poems from famous poets around the world. It also
allows users to save their favorites along with recoding their own
readings of the poems.
8. Wordflex Touch Dictionary
Turn your word-meanings search into a fun experience with the
Wordflex Touch Dictionary app! Developed exclusively for iPad in
association with the Oxford University Press, the Wordflex Touch
Dictionary app converts your word entries into attractive trees which
you can move, drag, share and reorganize using touch gestures. This app
is among the best as it also contains audio pronunciations both in UK
and US English, which is a great benefit for English learners.
9. Dynamic English Lesson 3 – Idioms
The Dynamic English Lessons 3 – Idioms is an app that helps students
learn and remember idioms using interactive games, fun graphics and
practical examples. The idioms are grouped under six different
categories including animals, body parts, objects, action and sports,
food and drink and miscellaneous. By using the dial, you just have to
select the right words in order to complete the idiom that is shown in
the picture. It is one of the best apps if you want to test yourself on
how to use idioms correctly.
10. iBooks
iBooks is a complete book library for the iPad users. It includes the
iBookstore and allows users to download and read books for free. It
also allows users to save their favorite classics for free. The app
features a beautiful bookshelf, on which you can browse various books;
tap a book to open and read it, and add notes to your favorite
paragraphs in the book. You can also create your own texts and upload
them into the app.
