Quizlet: My Favorite Educational Technology Tool in the Spanish Classroom
One educational technology tool that I find to be very useful and successful in teaching Spanish is Quizlet. It is very useful for learning new words, and reviewing old ones, as well as for identification of tenses and pronouns. I like it for its ability to speed up my students’ processing speed, something that is very important in the acquisition of a new language. Processing speed builds confidence and makes a language more accessible and useful to my students. Quizlet has various speed games: Scatter, Space Race, and Speller. These are great because while students focus on getting high scores and beating their classmates they are unknowingly strengthening their processing speed.
I also like to use Quizlet for reviewing as well as for my own ease of making materials for games. The site organizes the words and makes flashcards of various sizes which I use for games like “The Circle of Death,” “Spoons,” and others. The site also generates quizzes using the words that you have created in your lists. I love that the tests can be controlled to include multiple choice, short answer, matching, and true/false.
See my quizlet sets here.
One educational technology tool that I find to be very useful and successful in teaching Spanish is Quizlet. It is very useful for learning new words, and reviewing old ones, as well as for identification of tenses and pronouns. I like it for its ability to speed up my students’ processing speed, something that is very important in the acquisition of a new language. Processing speed builds confidence and makes a language more accessible and useful to my students. Quizlet has various speed games: Scatter, Space Race, and Speller. These are great because while students focus on getting high scores and beating their classmates they are unknowingly strengthening their processing speed.
I also like to use Quizlet for reviewing as well as for my own ease of making materials for games. The site organizes the words and makes flashcards of various sizes which I use for games like “The Circle of Death,” “Spoons,” and others. The site also generates quizzes using the words that you have created in your lists. I love that the tests can be controlled to include multiple choice, short answer, matching, and true/false.
See my quizlet sets here.