Quizlet

I used quizlet recently in an ESOL lesson. I wanted the learners to review the grammatical tenses we had been working on. There were quite a few of them and I wanted to find an interesting and fun way of doing it. Quizlet seemed to fit the bill perfectly. It didn't take long to put together and I found there were different ways that I could use it. As this was a revision lesson, I opted to do a 'match' task (learners had to match the name of the tense to its definition) - it worked really well! They like a healthy sense of competition and I think this was the reason they engaged fully. If I were to use it again, I could take a different approach. For example, I could use it to teach them about the tenses (this is the name of the tense and this is what it means). The audio input is good and this opens up another avenue for learners to engage with meaning. It clearly works as a review and it's good because there are different ways of setting this up. In terms of inclusion, I think quizlet can work well in class (it can appeal to a range of students with different learning styles) and also for self-study purposes. On the downside, the text is quite small (I may be able to enlarge it though?), so this is a problem for learners who are visually impaired. Learners who are hearing impaired are excluded if the audio is played but there are other ways to set it up. Overall, I really like quizlet and my learners did too, so I will continue to look for ways to use it.