{"id":11945,"date":"2016-02-02T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:47:35","slug":"speakingtoolsforkids2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/speakingtoolsforkids2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Webinars, Tools, and Apps for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>Getting young learners of English to practice speaking can be tough! The key is motivation. Try motivating children to speak with <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/tesol-webinar-games-for-young-learners\/\">games<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/american-tesol-webinar-finger-fun-learning-activities-ideas-with-fingers\/\">finger plays<\/a>, songs, <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/tesol-webinar-chants-and-rhymes-games-for-learners\/\">chants<\/a>, and hand clap games. Another way is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/american-tesol-webinar-teaching-with-sock-puppets-activities-apps-resources\/\">puppets<\/a>. Children are less shy answering if a puppet is involved because the puppet is the one who makes the mistakes. Another way to motivate young learners to practice English is with web tools and apps. Below, is a list of over 20 free web tools and apps we recommend for motivating children to speak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Web Tools<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americangreetings.com\/ecards\/talking\/pet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Talking Pet Cards by American Greetings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voki.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Voki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blabberize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blabberize<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educreations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Educreations<\/a> (Web\/iOS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/30hands.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">30 Hands<\/a> (Web\/iOS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Voicethread<\/a> (Web\/iOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you enjoyed the resources in this post, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/English-for-kids.html\">TESOL Children Certification course<\/a> for teaching English to children,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting young learners of English to practice speaking can be tough! The key is motivation. Try motivating children to speak with games, finger plays, songs, chants, and hand clap games.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1943],"tags":[1937,1938,1304,1939,88],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teach-english-with-technology","tag-children","tag-kids","tag-speaking-tools-apps","tag-teaching-children-english","tag-young-learners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18964,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/18964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}