Hot Potatoes has been around for quite a while in the field of educational technology. Yes, the design is a little archaic and drab, but that just goes to show that its functions and user-friendliness withstand the test of time. If you're looking to generate quizzes and all sorts of exercises, ranging from cloze, matching, to crossword on a computer program without having...

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Tag or word clouds are known to be crowd favourites in the education world, both for the purposes of lexical development or literacy and for decoration (they're just so pretty to look at!). A word cloud is literally a group of frequently occurring words from a text clumped together into a cloud-like shape with the most frequent words appearing larger,  while tag clouds...

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It's said that people's number one fear is not actually dying; it's public speaking! I, myself, break out in cold sweat when having to speak in L1 in front of an audience - imagine how daunting it is for students to have to speak publicly in a language they don't usually communicate in. This is what is referred to as foreign language apprehension,...

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Mobile-Assisted-Language Learning (MALL) has been rather favourable since its first appearance in 2009 with language learning mobile apps, such as those from the British Council and popular English video search engines and podcasts like FluentU and Podbean. It's great that these apps enable learners to practice independently in their own time, but MALL also fosters learning and exploration inside the classroom just as...

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