The SpeakApps project focuses on creating a free and open source online platform that gathers ICT-based applications and pedagogies to practice oral skills online. The SpeakApps platform would thus serve a community composed of foreign language teachers and their students
1. The Speakapps project seeks to offer a way for all
foreign language learners and teachers to practice www.speakapps.eu
and evaluate speaking skills at a distance or beyond
the physical classroom. The activities and tools
provided in SpeakApps can be used both within
face-to-face courses and as the main speaking
activities for online courses.
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Oral production
This project has been funded with support from the
Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission.
and interaction
in a foreign
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language through
online ICT tools
2. MAIN SPEAKAPPS FEATURES ACTIVITIES AND MATERIALS LEARNING TOOLS
A set of activities for oral production and interaction, for A set of tools freely available to download or use within
different languages (Catalan, English, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, the platform: Langblog, Videochat, and Tandem. These
Oral skills practice and Irish) and levels. Guides for assessment and for tools can be used together, or individually together with
try out tools developing new activities. User guides for the tools, as well as other communication tools (e.g Skype).
guides for developers who wish to integrate the tools in other
virtual environments.
Join the speakapps An audioblog for oral production. Makes it easy for
community students to make an audio or video recording from the
audioblog and fosters interaction amongst students.
Bring your Activities
students over A videoconferencing tool tailored for the needs of small
group work without the presence of the teacher. It's most
distinctive features are the absence of moderators,
recorder and automatic archiving system of recordings
Download Tools
within a given environment.
useful materials
A content manager that facilitates the distribution of
Help us to build different but complementary materials to students who
are engaged in tasks carried out synchronously. This tool
speakapps provide content for tasks designed for oral interaction.
Cloud
Share your CURRENT SPEAKAPPS PARTNERS
knowledge
READY TO USE PLATFORM IN
OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE COMMUNITY
THE CLOUD
For teachers who want their students to use these activities,
Organised as an open source software
materials and tools but do not have or wish to set up the
community, all materials, activities and
required technological infrastructure and support.
tools will be available for download,
online use and further development.
www.speakapps.eu