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teachers. Tasks help learners to develop shared to be viewed on a public forum.
life skills along with their communicative Websites and Applications for English
skills. For ages, teachers create their language learning
own tasks and in this techno world they
involve technology to entertain, inspire, As the researcher mentioned above
learn and teach. there are many applications that create
ripples by giving live streaming and
Tasks make students to:
group meetings, etc. YouTube is a very
• Get Feedback from teachers and co- creative application in which students
learners can create their own video and upload it
• Encourage Collaborative learning on their YouTube channel and share it in
• Have secure environmental learning the group to be viewed by their friends
• Appreciate autonomous learning and classmates. Even the same can be
• Reflect on one’s grammatical done by teachers to make students
mistakes as well as on co- understand the concepts in learning
participants as corrective measures English as a subject as well as a skill.
• Develop LSRW skills and help to There are few websites and applications
explore and observe the learning like TESOL Resource Center, British
processes Council’s Learn English, DoodleSpell,
FluentU, Enguru, Mondly, YouTube Kids
There is no hard and fast rule to conduct
or organize games in the classroom. etc., that can be used and examined by
teachers for their teaching purposes.
How to use whatsapp for language tasks
Whatsapp can be downloaded on a Method
smartphone from google store. The
contacts on the phone with whatsapp The study was conducted in an Arts and
application could get connected and Science College in Chengalput district,
viewed. More than 250 participants Tamil Nadu. Total 60 respondents
can be added to form a whatsapp were taken for the study which lasted
group. This application is used to send for four months. All respondents
messages, video, audio, photos and it had smartphones with Whatsapp
has a voice converter and video caller. application. The researcher created
This learning tool is all in one. While a whatsapp group named, FUN WITH
whatsapping, users can share their files ENGLISH.
in the group and receive the feedback The study was divided into three phases:
from the co-participants and the 1. The first phase was a pre-test to
teacher quickly. Whatsapp video calls understand the participants’ existing
can be done with four participants at knowledge in English language
a time. More than 100 participants can 2. The second phase was the
get connected for voice calls at a time. distribution of tasks
Voice to word conversion is an easy task 3. The third phase was to examine
for participants who struggle in text the level of improvement in English
messages. With the help of whatsapp, learning by conducting a post-
relevant websites or URL links can be
test and to validate the research
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