Talk English

Talk English is a website intended for students wanting to build skills independently outside the formal classroom.   The target skills are expressive language specifically speaking: vocabulary, pronunciation and writing; grammar, sentence structure; as well as receptive language- specifically listening exercises, note-taking and reading comprehension. The strength is that the lessons are in different format options: 1)written content on screen,  2) video lessons and 3) three-part lessons where the student listens to the dialogue, takes a quiz and then reads the dialogue transcript. There is also content related to business English and conversational English, referencing socio-cultural competency. The gap in this tool is that there is not any specific resources for teachers with regards to professional development as the content is video based and has built in assessment.