Language learning websites

I find three language learning websites that I like most: collocation of week; conversation exchange; digital dialects.

First is collocation of the week which takes a common word and gives five collocations of it each week for advanced students. It also uses the mind-map for showing definition, notes and example clearly. Through the mind-map, students can easily understand the usage of collocations in article. At the end of week, there’s also a short test which exam people’s comprehension of the lesson in this week. It won’t be a burden to students, because there’re only five collocations per week.

Second is conversation exchange which includes of face to face conversation, correspondence (pen-pal), and text and voice chat. I prefer the last one, because it’s the most safe and efficient way in three kinds of community ways. Through chat software students can easily communicate with others for free without safe problem. The chat software also has the function of video camera, and so that students also can chat with others face to face. Students should consider the security problem when meet someone who is stranger. The second one has the lesser opportunities to practice the speaking ability than the others.

The last one is digital dialects which uses the games to practice English vocabulary for English starter. Starter is hard to concentrate on textbook during long teaching time. Through interesting games can attract students’ attention and stimuli student’s learning motivation for enhancing their quantity of vocabulary. It’s good for English starters who hate to memorize the vocabulary.