ESL Apps
App Description App Description App Description

Phonics Genius

Category - Education

Designed to help recognize and distinguish words by sounds. 6,000 unique words grouped by phonics. Multiple unique game modes. Ability to add your own cards with continuous looping feature.

Rating - 4.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Show Me Interactive Whiteboard

Category - Productivity

Allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials. Drop images from photo library. Explain a range of topics with voice record, multiple brush colors and unlimited session length.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Skitch

Category - Productivity

Allows you to sketch and share, point out objects and locations within a photo, brainstorm ideas, and annotate screenshots. Save everthing to Evernote.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Intro to Letters

Category - Education

A child will learn basic foundations of language, to read, write and understand letters, lowerand upper case letters and sounds, writing and pronunciation, consonants and vowels.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $4.99

Sentence Builder

Category - Education

100 distinct pictures to build sentences, 3 levels of play, audio re-enforcement and encouragement animation, track student progress, teenager modules available.

Rating - 3 out of 5 stars

Cost - $5.99

Hello Hello - Learn English

Category - Education

30 conversational lessons based on real life situations with dialogues presented and broken into sentences to practice pronunciation and writing skills. Try for free - entire course $14.99

Rating - 3 out of 5 stars

Cost - free

Phonetics Focus HD

Category - Education

19 activities, interactive phonemic charts, native-speaker audio, listen and record, scored quizzes, practice tools and flashcard sets

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

Basic Pronunciation

Category - Education

Learn by listening with four games to improve pre-intermediate pronunciation. Practise speech mixing audio and visuals.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

Reading Fun Lite

Category - Education

Through amusing situations improve reading fluency, consider emphasis, understand the meaning and create incentive to read.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - free

WordBook XL - Dictionary and Thesaurus

Category - Reference

150,000 entries with 220,000 definitions and 70,000 usage samples. Spoken pronunciation with 120,000 guides in International Phonetic Alphabet. Bookmark and history management.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

Longman Dictionary of Contemporay English

Category - Reference

230,000 entries with 165,000 examples and 10,000 encyclopedic entries. Clear definitions written using only 2000 common words. Highlights the most important words to know. 86,000 recorded sentence samples online.

Rating - 4.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $29.99

Sentence Reading Magic

Category - Education

To help read words, read sentences and build sentences. Uses short sentences to help build confidence.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

iGE Lite: interactive Grammar

Category - Education

Designed for students studying and wishing to learn English or improve English. A searchable grammatical glossary with interactive exercises and quizzes. Complete course is available for purchase.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Grammar Up

Category - Education

A multiple choice quiz system providing 1800 questions across 20 grammar cateories. Helps the learner improve grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Provides real-time-error-feedback.

Rating - 3 out of 5 stars

Cost - $4.99

Sounds: The Pronunciation App

Category - Education

Interactive Phonemic chart, transcriptions and audio. Record your own pronunciation. Purchase new word lists. Practice activities and quizzes.

Rating - __ out of 5 stars

Cost - $5.99

English Basic Level

Category - Education

Learn and practice basic and intermediate English.Features 4 listening sections and 4 test sections with instant feedback.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $1.99

ABC Phonics Word Family

Category - Education

Phonics spelling, beginning sound, ending sound, word family phonics, short vowel sounds, word pronunciation, touch and hear, progress report.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Sight Words for Reading HD

Category - Education

Students learn sight words, test themselves with a flash card quiz. More content can be purchased.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Idioms

Category - Education

A multiple choice quiz system providing 700 common idiomatic questions and explanations. Provides a method for acquiring idiomatic expressions and the context for using them.

Rating - 3 out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

       
           

Some of the websites that were used to identify the above apps:

a) Free ESL iPad Apps

b) 16 Incredible iPad Apps for ESL Learners

c) Best iPad Apps for English Language Learners