Vocabulary Tutor
http://www.learnthat.org/vocabulary/quiz
Target group: 13~16 years old who are intermediate learner of ESL/EFL.
Brief summary: This website is for building vocabulary through typing the 50 words that the learner read the definition on the screen. It can be shown the letters at the beginning and the end if they press the “clue1 & 2”. Also the learner can listen to the sounds of the word as an answer. If they cannot answer the question, it provide the spelling orally. The camera bottom shows the picture related to the target vocabulary. In addition, the learner can look up the meaning of the vocabulary through the right bottoms such as ”Wikipedia”, and “Visual Thesaurus” .
Teaching idea: It is cleaver device because there are quite a lot of factors. The students can study deeply using these options. Also they can choose the level of target vocabulary, therefore, it can be used by themselves in the classroom. In addition, it can motivate students to be familiar with using English- English dictionary because of showing the meaning of the target vocabulary in English.
Hiromi, this is another interesting website for learning vocabulary. You seemed to have focused on resources for learning the 'form' of vocabulary.
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