ESL speed readings vs Bhashe

This app will help you increase your reading speed. When you read faster, you understand better, and reading is more enjoyable. Also, speed reading can increase other skills (Elley & Mangubhai, 1979). A good speed to read is around 250 words per minute (Nation, 2005). THE STORIES ---------------------- This app has 140 short stories. Each story is written using easy words. For example, the stories at the elementary level are all written using the 500 most-frequent words in English. This level is easier than the intermediate level because the stories at the intermediate level were written using the 1000 most-frequency words in English. There are a variety of stories. These stories have been collected over many years. Some are famous stories from around the world. The stories are grouped into books. Each book contains twenty short stories. Each story has a set of questions to answer after reading. Answering these questions makes it easy to check that you are speed reading effectively. You should try to get 70% on the quiz. The more stories you read, the more you will increase your reading speed. The stories were written by Sonia Millett. Emmy Quinn and Paul Nation wrote the first version of one of the reading books. FEEDBACK ------------------ The app measures how long it takes you to read each story. To do so, it uses standard words per minute. It also checks if you are speed reading correctly by giving you feedback. This feedback helps you to continue to practicing speed reading effectively. For more information: https://eslspeedreading.tjuggles.com REFERENCES --------------------- - Elley, W. B., & Mangubhai, F. (1979). A research report on Reading in Fiji. Fiji English Teachers Journal, 15, 1-7. - Nation, P. (2005). Reading faster. Pasaa, 36, 21-37.

Bhashe makes vocabulary learning fun by engaging the user in a game-like interface. Kannada hints are given for some of the most common words used in English. A typical use case scenario is, given a Kannada word, to guess the letters of the corresponding English word. Type in letters within the blanks and upon completion, the letters will be highlighted according to whether they are present in the word and are in the correct location (green), present in the word but in the wrong location (orange), or not present at all (red). If a guess is incorrect, the letters are cleared for a fresh try. At each letter press, possible solution words may be echoed below. The application intends to engage the user in building vocabulary in English using native Kannada words, like solving a puzzle. The application also features history of solved words for reference,