ABOUT US “Learn English with apps”: the purpose of this project was to make students test and write about apps that can help them improve their English language skills. The project aimed at taking advantage of a powerful and engaging learning tool – the students’ smartphone. Considering the huge amount of apps everywhere, the project wanted to make students test some of them (chosen by the teachers) for some time and see if they were effective or not. The final products of this project are 2 digital magazines, logos and some posters. Twinspace and Google Docs were used by students and teachers, allowing everyone to work in the same shared files. The Teams:
Poland (Zespół Szkół Zawodowych im. św. Barbary w Bogatyni)
Portugal (EBI São Domingos, Covilhã)
Portugal (Mira de Aire Secondary School, Mira de Aire)
Turkey (Darıca Anadolu Lisesi)
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Name: Practice English Grammar Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.testsstore.app.peg0&hl=en Operating system: Android, iOS Price: Free; digital purchases Size: 6.5 MB Author’s description: Practice English Grammar contains many grammar lessons explaining the grammar topics via articles, test, flashcards and learning games. Practice English Grammar includes more than 1000+ questions, 750+ flashcards, 100+ learning games, grammar articles, detailed feedback on questions.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
BEATRIZ PEREIRA, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE)
POSITIVE ASPECTS I quite liked the application because here we can develop our grammar skills. I will continue to use this application. It is easy to follow explanations and they are easy to understand. The application loads fast and it does not crash. The application has several lessons with all the grammar. The app teaches with games and quizzes.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This application has some annoying advertising.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
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The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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The app has no technical problems and loads quickly.
DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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LARA MARTINHO LUZIO, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS I really like “Practise English Grammar”. It´s very useful and interesting. It has a great variety of grammar exercises where we can develop our reading and writing skills. It has some courses. The articles and tests included in course 1 cover 5 lessons and a variety of topics; such as nouns, adjectives, interrogative words, tenses and many more. It hasn’t sound but the graphics are amazing. It loads quickly. The directions are clear and simple to follow. It hasn’t got any advertising. The method is motivating, very captivating and appealing.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS Some games are bugged because we get a blank screen when we click “play”. Most of the courses are paid.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
The app has no technical problems and loads quickly. The app has several levels of difficulty.
EWELINA BRZOZOWSKA, POLAND
POSITIVE ASPECTS This application is useful because it teaches grammar and vocabulary, because in order to understand the sentence I must translate it first. It has a few lessons from the whole grammar and thanks to game II can learn.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS In this app you cannot change the language. Most courses are paid.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
I will keep using this app.
The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
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The app has no technical problems and loads quickly. The app has several levels of difficulty.
LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Learn English grammar quick Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.datnm.englishgrammar&hl=en Operating system: Android Price: Free; digital purchases Size: 3 MB Author’s description: It is the best way to improve your English Grammar at home, on the move, anywhere! This app will be constantly updated with new contents, and tests which help you continually refreshing your knowledge.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
SVITLANA SHEVCHUK, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS I think that this is a great app, the method is very motivating. This app has good exercises. It loads quickly but it sometimes crashes. This app has the explanation of the grammatical contents and exercises to train. This app also has exercises of speaking, it has videos on grammar, vocabulary, speaking and writing. The directions are clear and simple to follow. The app is also good to develop our vocabulary skills and it makes us think. It doesn’t have any advertising.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The app is sometimes boring and it is sometimes repetitive.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate
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The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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The app has no technical problems and loads quickly.
DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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CATARINA MARRIÇO, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS The app has good exercises about grammar and tenses. It has a funny quiz. It has a good variety of exercises and videos. The videos have four areas (grammar, vocabulary, speaking and writing). The speaking is good because it has many subjects (basic, transport, drinking, health, hotel, entertainment, interview and office). The app teaches grammar, vocabulary, tenses and other things. The directions are clear and simple to follow. It has several levels of difficulty (beginner / intermediate / advanced). It´s not difficult to use. It´s a light app. The app has good graphics.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The app is very boring; it's not motivating after a short time and the app has a lot annoying advertising, because it's very repetitive. It´s not completely free. The app does not have sound.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
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The app has excellent graphics and sounds.
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ADRIANO AZEVEDO, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ)
POSITIVE ASPECTS It has great exercises, it´s very helpful for the students. It has grammar and tenses to learn and good videos. The tests are good to test our English and that is very essential for our learning. You also find funny quizzes and speaking exercises. It has levels of difficulty. This application has many forms to play and options. It is possible to play with idioms too. In general, this app is not difficult to use.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS It helps a bit but sometimes exercises at beginner level are difficult.
LANGUAGE LEVEL Beginner and professional
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The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Vocabulary trainer Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.languagecourse.vt.en&hl=en Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 15 MB Author’s description: Learn English Vocabulary Trainer: Speak English for Travel, Business, Dating, Study & School. .100% Free English lessons for beginners, advanced learners, adults and kids. Build a solid vocabulary in just 10 mins per day. Learn the most frequent English words and travel phrases quickly, before your holidays. Proven methodology for accelerated and stress-free learning of English.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
TOMÁS PEREIRA, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS I really enjoyed my app. It is very complete because you can improve your listening and writing skills and it has a great variety of exercises. With this app you can learn some vocabulary and then solve some exercises about it and it has many different courses to do such as courses about dating phrases, travelling or medicine. The appearance is very appealing and motivating too and it has a really good sound. Another great aspect of this app is that it doesn’t have any advertising.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The app doesn’t crash but sometimes I want to play and I can’t do that because I need internet to download the courses. In the beginning it was hard to understand how the app worked because of the large number of courses and different exercises. Listening to a Brazilian voice all the time is a little boring and it is really hard to write the answers because the buttons are really small and the space between them is small too.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
OTHER COMMENTS I will certainly use this app again, not many times but I will do that.
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DUARTE CORREIA, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ)
POSITIVE ASPECTS In this app we can speak English and study, it´s very simple and it has different topics, thematic courses and various levels. It´s very fast in the different levels, perfect to study and learn English. The game modes are very useful to learn and we can listen to radio, reading and see the various courses.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This app says “Pegi 3” but it is very complex for a three-year old kid; it’s very slow when uploading a level or a game mode.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: English listening & speaking Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funbox.englishlisteningpractice Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 6.2 MB Author’s description: This helpful app will help you listen to English and speak English more fluently. There are many lessons divided into many levels from elementary to intermediate and advanced. You can choose one of two audio modes: Online Streaming and Offline to learn English. This app also includes the list of necessary idioms and phrases used in daily talk.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
LEONOR FERREIRA, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS This app has some positive aspects. It’s a good way to learn how to speak English and it’s very helpful when we’re talking about listening skills. It has many levels of difficulty (from elementary to advanced). The app includes daily conversations, in different levels of difficulty, which is great. It also has an irregular verb table and short stories, both supported with audio. In the listening exercises, we understand very well what is being said, so that is an advantage. The directions are very clear and simple, so we can use this app very easily. It can recognize our pronunciation and it says if it is good or bad. It has a great variety of exercises, such has a lot of listening tests, so we can develop our listening and vocabulary skills. It doesn’t crash.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS I didn’t like this app that much because it’s boring. At the beginning it’s interesting, but after a short time it becomes very heavy and annoying. In some exercises it has a lot of text and the texts aren’t translated, so people who don’t understand English very well will struggle. It has some advertising and it is not very appealing.
LANGUAGE LEVEL elementary / intermediate / advanced
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
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The app has no technical problems and loads quickly. The app has several levels of difficulty.
BEATRIZ CARVALHO, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS The app aims to practice speaking and listening skills. The app is very good to practice our pronunciation. The sound is very good; we can understand what is being said. It has a lot of short stories easy to advanced), daily talks (easy to advanced), a category dedicated to the most common expressions (by topics and A-Z) other dedicated to “necessary idioms” and phrasal verbs and another one dedicated to irregular verbs; the app also offers listening tests and a sentence building game.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The appearance of the app needs some work, because the way it is organized is a bit confusing and could be better. Unfortunately the app becomes uninteresting after a short time. It has some annoying advertising. I have to download the texts when I want to hear them for the first time so we need some space in our memory card.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Speak English fluently Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funbox.dailyenglishconversation Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 2.5 MB Author’s description: If you are looking for an app to improve your English Conversation and Listening skills and help you speak more fluently, this app is suitable for you. Whole audios of this app are in American accent. This app also includes the list of most common words and phrases used in daily conversations. It will help you speak English fluently.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
BEATRIZ SANTOS, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS It doesn’t have bugs and it loads quickly. It also has an explanation for all verb tenses.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS I find this app very boring. The logo does scream fun and “Hi, I’m very fun and educative, download me!”. It really does, but then the content isn’t that much educative and it’s very simple and plain. I also think that it’s too easy. The only thing that we can do in the app is pick a conversation and then listen to it. It’s very unattractive and it leaves us with no motivation to keep using it because of being so boring and calm and so not funny and unappealing. It has only 2 levels of difficulty, organized by topics, and we can pick our favourite conversations and fix them on our ”timeline”, which isn’t that much useful and the space that this option uses could be used for something more interesting and educative, it could be an option that could help us with our grammar. It has conjugated verbs and tenses, common sentences & expressions and sentence topics, but they’re very boring because we can only listen to them, it doesn't have any exercise for us to do and practice. In the conversations, the easy level is very very basic and I find the conversations really silly: It has conversations about greasy hair and Chinese dumplings. In my opinion, it should contain conversations about school, about the subjects, or conversations that we will have during our work or free time. I will definitely not keep using it.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate / advanced
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FLOR SARAIVA, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS Ok, I don’t like the app, but I have to say that it’s at least easy to use (since we don’t do anything) and it does not have ads (I didn't have the internet connection on when I used so I don’t really know). And if you count conversations as exercises, they do have a good variety, the “main attraction” are the conversations, but I also have conversation topics; expressions; idioms and phrases; a list of irregular verbs and tenses so it teaches vocabulary and a tiny bit of grammar. The graphics aren’t awful but they're not a graceful and majestic swan as well. Since I can’t listen to anything, I will just suppose that the sounds aren’t very good. At least the directions are simple, it just has a main page with some divisions, each one has one “exercise”, for example, if we choose Conversations Easy Level, it will take us to a page full of topics for different conversations. Another good thing is the fact that we have different levels for conversations and it loads quickly. It does not crash, and the only bug I consider is the sound not working.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS I didn’t really like the app, I don’t think it helped me at all, maybe it works with beginners but for someone who has a decent English, it’s not helpful at all, therefore, the method doesn’t work and the only thing that motivated me were the ridiculous names they use because the real names are proprietary, for example, Taylor Swifty instead of Taylor Swift or Facepost instead of Facebook. Obviously, I will stop using it! In my opinion, reading conversations isn’t helpful, as I think that the best way to improve our skills on a foreign language is to talk, and actually be on a conversation, not listening to them! The app shows us several conversations but you are supposed to listen to them while we’re reading, but mine never worked! Every time I pressed the play button, it passed straight to the end of the recording and didn’t let me listen! So I got bored and lost motivation quickly. I guess we can say it’s repetitive since they have tons of dialogues so it’s kind of limited.
LANGUAGE LEVEL It has several levels, including beginner and advanced.
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DANIEL FIGUEIREDO, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS The app has a very good English level, there are 3 types of levels, easy, intermediate and advanced. The app design is average, it could be better. It also has voice exercises, to help you with listening and speaking. The app also has many options in it; instead of just 5 options is has more than that. In my opinion I would download this app and use it one day. The app doesn't take ages to download and it runs very quickly, even in horrible phones or tablets. The app is for free and there is no risk when downloading it. I would rate it 4 stars.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The negative aspects aren't that many since I've found that there are only 2, those are the configurations where there are 2 options, and there are a lot of advertisements in it. But the app needs more options like completing exercises instead of reading, speaking exercises instead of listening. Some of the topics are very big texts, so I suggest to make them shorter, because it will be a lot to read. Besides this, the app doesn't even have images.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate / advanced
OTHER COMMENTS The app shows a lot of text messages, where there are two individuals talking about the topic that you chose. All the audios of this app are in American English.
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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ARKADIUSZ NIEDBAŁ, POLAND POSITIVE ASPECTS This game is very cool. It helped me to learn how to spell some words. Yes, because I don’t know English very well. So it has several levels of difficulty. The sound is very cool and the graphics look nice. The application loads up quickly. It has several levels of difficulty. With the application we can learn a lot of things. It helps in the writing of words.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: English vocabulary game Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.govz.vocabularygame Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 1.6 MB Author’s description: THE BEST ENGLISH VOCABULARY GAME IN THE MARKET! Want to increase your English vocabulary? Then this game is for you. In this Vocabulary Game you need to guess the missing letter of a word, the faster you guess the more points you will be getting.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
MÓNICA RODRIGUES, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS I liked the application. My application is interesting. It is divided into five parts: the game, playing the vocabulary, the scores, the levels of difficulty and instructions. I will continue to use it because I liked to play. They have two levels of difficulty. The sound is reasonable. It is easy to understand what you have to do in games. It has two levels of difficulty: easy and hard. It records the scores with the player's name. You have the option to choose which vocabulary you want to play, such as: animals, countries, plants, food, cities, vehicle and surroundings. It has a lot of variety of games. It has the possibility of sharing in social networks, make a registration. It develops vocabulary, listening and writing skills .
NEGATIVE ASPECTS It is not very motivating. It does not have any advertising. It is a bit slow to load. It is limited because it has a time limit. It crashes a little while you are playing.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / advanced
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DIRECTIONS & INSTRUCTIONS: What am I supposed to do with this app? PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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PAULO ROQUE, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS This app is very good for people who want to learn vocabulary. The app has two levels of difficulty, the easy level and the difficult level. In the easy level you have to choose the missing letter, in the difficult level you do the same thing but this time you have to choose two missing letters in the word. In the game you can choose the 10 question quiz, the 15 question quiz and the 20 question quiz and you have 10 seconds to complete each one. It is also possible to select categories like animals, countries, plants, surroundings, vehicles, foods and cities.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS It is a little bit boring because the game is always the same and the words are quite repetitive. The app doesn´t have images, sounds or videos and that is bad because the apps with images, sound or videos motivate people to use them.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / advanced
OTHER COMMENTS In my opinion the app has to improve with a new diversity of games and it should have speaking and listening exercises to practise the pronunciation.
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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LEANDRO ESGALHADO, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ)
POSITIVE ASPECTS This game is interesting, it is colourless and it has big letters. The game has settings, high score, instructions and leaderboard. The game is very fast but easy. We have 2 difficulty levels, Easy and Difficult, we have 7 category selections, animals, countries, plants, surrounding, vehicles, foods and city. We have different Quiz sizes - 10, 15 and 20- too. To have access to the Leader Board we need to create an account in swarm. The instructions are very explicit! One of the good things is that the application does not have advertising. It is a good app to improve my English.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS It is not a very motivating game, there are some things I did not like, for example the time - it is very fast, some words aren’t easy. In my opinion, the easy level isn’t that easy. The application is not as good to learn English as it is to spend your time! ;)
LANGUAGE LEVEL Beginner / Intermediate / advanced
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ARKADIUSZ NIEDBAŁ, POLAND
POSITIVE ASPECTS This game is very cool. It helped me to learn how to spell some words. Yes, because I don’t know English very well. so it has several levels of difficulty. The sound is very cool and graphics look nice. The application loads up quickly. It has several levels of difficulty. With the application we can learn a lot of things. It helps in the writing of words.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner
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The app has excellent graphics and sounds. The app is very easy to use and the directions are clear and easy to follow.
PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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CÉLIA PIRES, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS The app was very funny and interesting. The method works and for beginners it is motivating. I will keep using the app. It hasn’t a good variety of exercises, because it only has vocabulary, for example food and animals. The graphics and the sound aren’t good or appealing. The directions are simple and clear to follow. It doesn’t load quickly and it has several levels of difficulty. The app teaches vocabulary and it develops writing skills, through games.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS It isn’t boring but it is limited, because it hasn’t pictures. It should have more sound recording and videos to be more appealing. It is a bit difficult to use. The app crashed and this was annoying.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Words with brains Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dys.wordswb Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 2.6 MB Author’s description: word brain game is the most addictive word puzzle game. Test your skills and vocabulary. Everything you need is to find the suitable word in 5 different mini games.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
ADRIANA ALBINO, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS This app is very interesting. It has a loud sound and a good and cosy appearance. It works very well but it’s not motivating. The app is about building words with letters that are in the squares below. The app is easy to use, but sometimes it’s too difficult to build words. It loads super quickly, what is awesome. It has three levels of difficulty, the “3 Letter Word”, the “4 Letter Word” and the “5 Letter Word”. It has two levels too that are named “Word in quotes” and “Word picture”. The first one is to complete the quotes and the second one is to name the pictures above, that are about animals, Disney characters, fruit, etc. The app intends to teach vocabulary. For me, it hasn’t developed any skills. I will not keep using it, despite the positive aspects.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The app is boring. It sometimes crashes. It has much advertising too, that is very annoying to close because of the tiny close bottom. The sound is super annoying after a while using the app. I lost motivation after a short time, because it has nothing new. It’s too repetitive, and we lose all the points if we lose once. It hasn’t a long variety of exercises, it´s almost the same thing every time. It’s not appealing.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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ANA CAROLINA ALMEIDA, PORTUGAL (MIRA DE AIRE) POSITIVE ASPECTS This app has a good appearance and it is interesting in the beginning but after some time it becomes boring. In the menu we have a choice to play or to learn how to play, then when we choose to play we have five categories: “three letter word”, “four letter word”, “five letter word”; these three are the three levels of difficulty. “Word in quotes”, in this one we have to build a word to complete sentences and in “word picture” we have a picture that we have to name.This app loads very quickly. This app only has advertising when we have the wi-fi on. This app doesn't have bugs. The graphics are good.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This app doesn´t have a good variety of exercises it´s just the same thing but with more letters, it´s too repetitive, nothing new. This app just has an annoying sound when we win or lose and because of that it becomes boring and we lose motivation after a short period of time. Sometimes this app crashes. When we lose we lose many points. I will not keeping using it.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner / intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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ARKADIUSZ NIEDBAŁ, POLAND POSITIVE ASPECTS This game is very cool. It helped me to learn how to spell some words. Yes, because I don’t know English very well. So it has several levels of difficulty. The sound is very cool and the graphic looks nice. The application loads up quickly. It has several levels of difficulty. The application can help you learn a lot of things. It helps in the writing of words.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: 13000 videos English learning Website: http://www.mobogenie.com/download-13000-videos-english-learning-3751135.html Operating system: Android Price: Free Size: 3.8 MB Author’s description: This is an application for learning english by videos, more than 13000 videos and 500 playlists which are classified orderly for common topics in English.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
EWELINA BRZOZOWSKA, POLAND POSITIVE ASPECTS This application is a good method because I can learn English through your favorite songs. Thanks to this that there are texts I can follow the pronunciation for of vocabulary and spelling.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS Some videos aren’t available. In this app I cannot change the language.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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ALEXANDRE VENTURA, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS For me this application is not very good but there are some positive aspects. This app is divided into 4 topics. In the topics there are different categories: speaking; listening; reading; writing; vocabulary; grammar and pronunciation. It’s all in videos and some are fun. Other interesting aspect is that the videos are divided in different levels of difficulty: basic, intermediate and advanced.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This app also has negative aspects, as it can be confusing and boring because there are many videos, however, some are fun.
LANGUAGE LEVEL (choose the best level or levels) intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot. DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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TAOUFIQ EL FARHI, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS The app is fun and it has good instructions. It is very well organized and fast; It teaches many topics. In each topic we have different categories, for example speaking, listening, reading, pronunciation, grammar. The most important thing is that the videos are divided in different levels (basic, intermediate and advanced).
NEGATIVE ASPECTS The apps are confusing and boring too; It could also have some fun games.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Vocabulary builder Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magoosh.gre.quiz.vocabulary Operating system: Android, iOS Price: Free Size: 2.6 MB Author’s description: Build your vocabulary with Magoosh's free vocabulary game for your Android phone or tablet. Quiz yourself every day to learn the 1200 most important words!
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
BARTEK GURAK, POLAND POSITIVE ASPECTS This application is cool because it has 1,200 words and each word has a definition and an example of what is great because I can learn. It also has features that track your progress; I think it is cool.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS Overcoming levels to unlock new words can be annoying if you want to immediately learn these words
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
OTHER COMMENTS There could be a few more options and an easier interface.
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MARCO AMARAL, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS This is a very good app for people who want to practise or learn English out of class. It has got more than 1200 vocabulary words picked by an expert tutor and audio pronunciation for each of the word in the app. If you are a little young or just can´t understand the English teacher you can try the lower level, every sections have different vocabulary levels. Like the basic, intermediate and advanced and it is also fun to beat levels to unlock new words. Track your progress as you study.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS If you play it for like 30 minutes you will be bored and you will probably uninstall the app. When you can't pass through to the next level you lose interest. The app could have different types of ways to play it but unfortunately it only has one. And the thing that I really didn't like is that you can only play if you are connected to the internet and that's really annoying. It needs new updates.
LANGUAGE LEVEL advanced
OTHER COMMENTS It needs maintenance.
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PERFORMANCE: The app crashes a lot.
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DIFFERENTIATION: It has just one or few levels of difficulty.
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MATILDE SANTOS, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS The design is great and the app is really fast. It’s a good app for people with an advanced level of English.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS I think that this app is very strange and confusing. It’s very boring and I couldn’t understand much. In fact, the app gives a word and you have to choose a synonym but they are always the same words. This app has many levels but I was really disappointed because I thought that was going to be a really good app. This app is like some kind of memory game and the levels are too hard... even the easiest one.
LANGUAGE LEVEL Advanced
OTHER COMMENTS The beginner level could be easier! ;)
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BERK ISTANBUL, TURKEY POSITIVE ASPECTS The app is so useful and has more vocabulary. This needs high English skills and I like it. It is very comprehensive in term of vocabulary. If you need vocabulary training you must download this app.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This app is too hard for me. I wish for an easier English vocabulary app.
LANGUAGE LEVEL advanced
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INÊS FEITEIRO, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS This app is simple and easy to use and the design is so well structured. It is fast and doesn’t have publicity. We can learn 1200 words and we can choose a level of difficulty.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS To begin with I was confused and frustrated. When you play this game for too long it gets boring and it is so annoying when the words are repeated.
LANGUAGE LEVEL advanced
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Speaking Pal Website: https://www.speakingpal.com/ Operating system: Android, iOS Price: Free, digital purchases Size: 37 MB Author’s description: Our advanced speech recognition gives you instant feedback on every word and sentence. Color-coded so that you can focus on the red words, and try to improve them. Proprietary scoring logic that is tuned for non-native English speakers. Speak so that others can understand you.
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
GOZDE GUVENÇ, TURKEY POSITIVE ASPECTS I think this app is very useful for the ones who are curious about learning English. There is a video in every part to improve your listening & speaking. When you start watching the video, there is an English translation below the video. When the video is over, there is a Turkish translation of the speech. There are levels too, so if you want to move on to the next level, you have to listen to more videos. So you can improve not only your grammar but also listening & speaking.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS There is nothing except for the video. This makes the app boring and the app sends lot of notifications but all of them are ads. I think this app can be more useful.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
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LEARN ENGLISH WITH APPS ETWINNING PROJECT
Name: Busuu Website: https://www.busuu.com/enc/mobile Operating system: Android, iOS Price: Free; digital purchases Size: 40MB Author’s description: Kids have fun learning languages with busuu through a carefully structured and exciting course of 150 words, taught across 30 vibrant learning units full of educational games!
STUDENTS’ RATINGS
BARTEK GURAK, POLAND POSITIVE ASPECTS I liked this application because I could see if my English is functional; you can choose what you want to teach yourself, so it is great.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS There are better versions of these applications but they are paid.
LANGUAGE LEVEL intermediate
OTHER COMMENTS The beginner level could be a little more difficult.
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MARIANA COSTA, PORTUGAL (COVILHÃ) POSITIVE ASPECTS The Busuu app is very useful to those who want to learn English. This app has various levels: the beginner, the basic, intermediate, intermediate advanced and travel course. In each level there are several lessons and each lesson teaches one different topic. It actually teaches levels in vocabulary, grammar and writing. In my opinion, this app is very useful, because it teaches English well enough and it comes very handy to people who want to improve their English.
NEGATIVE ASPECTS This app could be faster loading the lessons.
LANGUAGE LEVEL beginner
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