Mobile Warming: Melting the Barriers to Language Learning with Mobile
Devices
Marsha ChanProfessor at Mission College, California
and President of Sunburst Media
Apps for Aural and Oral Language Development
Selected Mobile Apps
• Youtube (Android, iOS) • English Accent Coach• Anytune slow downing app• biNu + feature phone = smart phone
Youtube• Find videos and channels • Subscribe to favorite channels• In a playlist use “play all” for sequential
learning• Watch a video while searching for the next
one• Download in Google Play & iTunes Stores,
or use in a browser
www.youtube.com/user/bbclearningenglish
www.youtube.com/user/BritishCouncilLE
www.youtube.com/user/podEnglish
www.youtube.com/user/realenglish1
www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish
www.youtube.com/user/rachelsenglish
www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL
www.youtube.com/user/PronunciationDoctor
English Accent Coach• Train the brain to recognize new sounds and
provide the basis for improved pronunciation of North American vowels and consonants.
• Browser-based • iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Apps (Practice, Games,
Results)• EAC Vowels 1: Listen, identify from large database
of sounds, words, speakers• EAC Echo: Listen, identify touch a colored vowel
button, repeat
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/eac-vowels-1/id489219203?mt=8
AnytuneMusic practice app for singers, dancers and musicians
• iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch: Free, 1.99, 3.99, 4.99 versions
• App slows down music BPM without changing pitch.
• Use Anytune to slow down and practice speech.
Step-It-Up Interval Trainer Sound + Lyrics/Text• Visualize the sound of a song or speech• Practice at own pace by adjusting tempo.• Mark and loop song sections for repeated
practice of selected phrases.• Use Step-It-Up Interval Trainer to increase
tempo and develop fluency
biNu
• App gives basic mobile feature phones fast, cheap and easy access to Internet services and apps
• Use in browser: www.binu.com/apps-cloud/emulator
Marsha’s TESOL 2014 presentations
• Mobile Warming: Melting the Barriers to Language Learning with Mobile Devices. Electronic Village Hot Topic, with Susan Gaer and Sandy Wagner (Thursday, 8:00-9:15 am, Electronic Village)
• Mobile Devices - ELT for the Next Generation. Electronic Village Mini-workshop, with Susan Gaer (Thursday 12:30-1:50 pm, Electronic Village)
• English Language Software for the Next Generation: Sustaining Learners' Interest (Friday 3:00-3:45 pm, E141)
• Exploring and Promoting the Melody of Spoken English (Saturday 11:30-12:15 pm, B113)
• Pronunciation Games and Playful Activities to Promote Communication (Saturday 2:00-2:45, OB201)
Mobile Devices - ELT for the Next Generation. Electronic Village Mini-workshop, with Susan Gaer
(Thursday 12:30-1:50 pm, Electronic Village)
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