WhatsApp

WhatsApp

            WhatsApp is a very common app used for almost everybody nowadays. This is an app used for communicating with other people even in other countries by using your cellphone. By using this app, users use and put into practice the four linguistic skills because you can read and write text messages and listen and speak for voice messages. With this app the only thing that is being left behind is the personal interaction. As a result, this is a very useful app to reinforce EFL students by means of different activities that teachers can create. For example:

-          Teachers can ask students to record themselves pretending a videocall (,) and then send them to their teacher.

-          Teachers can ask students to send them an audio in which they share their opinion about a pre-established topic.

-          Teachers can create a WhatsApp group and use it as a forum in which students discuss about a certain topic and share their ideas in both ways by sending text messages and audios.

To use this app, teachers have to consider three aspects:

1.      Be sure that all of your students have a cellphone.

2.      This app uses internet connection.

3.      Moderate the use of the app because students can use it for extracurricular purposes.

This app can help teachers to create a more elaborate and attractive class for students, and they will enjoy it because students are always willing to use their cellphones.

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