Enjoy the joy of learning English with ejoy: ‘Wherever you go, ejoy will follow’

If I ask you ‘which gadget is the most useful one in your day-to-day life?’, I think the first thing that would pop up in your mind is the mobile phone. It has become an inseparable part of our existence. It is even truer for our young and adult students who are always connected with the community through their mobile phones. Sometimes, we reflect: "I wish my students could study with the same passion and interest they invest in mobile games or apps!" So, why don’t we give the Generation Next an opportunity to learn through mobile phones with the same enjoyable and enthusiastic activity that they find in games? Yeah, it’s tricky I know, but not impossible! Probably, your thoughts are hovering around the institutional permission for pedagogical integration of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL), right? I think if you persuade your authority by saying that the desired app is developed very systematically to learn and hone language skills, then they may get assured that mobile-based learning is not trash at all. Okay? Let’s have a look at ejoy, a mobile-mediated language learning app.

Ejoy

ejoy English App claims to level up the users listening and speaking skills along with an emphasis on vocabulary. This app allows the learners to choose resource materials from a wide variety of their in-app collections. Not only that, it also provides freedom of bringing the learners’ own learning materials in the form of movie clips, documentary videos, articles, or online books. After connecting the documents with ejoy, the users will be able to search the meaning of a word/phrase in the dictionary from the subtitle. Moreover, there are also opportunities of turning any text into audio. Amazing! There are more. The app also provides fun activities and vocabulary games which are based on the selected documents. You can also record your voice and re-record selected videos

Getting started

You need to download and install ejoy app from Google play or App store. Once it is installed, it will keep track of your progress and give you time to time reminders about your to-do things and unfinished work in the app. If you want to learn more about ejoy, visit the following link and watch the videos:

https://ejoy-english.com/en#!

Sample tasks

a) Listening

Instructions for students:

Download and install ejoy on your mobile phones.

Select a 3-5 minutes movie clip of your choice.

Look up the difficult words in the dictionary.

Then, narrate the story in as much detail as possible to the person sitting next to you.

 

 

b) Speak Game

Instructions for students:

Select a video-based text.

Record your voice while repeating the text.

Compare your recorded version with that of the original one.

Share your percentage of correction with the class if you want.

 Benefits

This app provides the learners opportunities for personalization and individualization of the learning materials which help to build an ownership of the learning process and facilitate language learning.

It provides direct practice of listening, speaking, vocabulary and grammar and integrates reading and writing skills as well. Therefore, it’s a complete package of learning, practicing, and improving language skills.

The in-app listening and speaking materials are mostly based on interesting topics which can turn out to be engaging and motivating for the learners.

Pitfalls

If you are thinking that I will now start writing about the free and paid version of the app, you are correct! For updating some of the premium features, you need to pay.

Too much engagement with the activities will increase the time of scree-exposure which can be detrimental to health. Therefore, students must be briefed about standard everyday use like 30 minutes or 1 hour per day.

Now it's your turn to explore ejoy! I think the claim that ‘Wherever you go, ejoy will follow’ is quite logical. What do you think?