Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 67

Another example is English Central which suggests a variety of short videos for beginners, intermediate and advanced students, followed by vocabulary exercises, including the possibility of students to practice recording themselves while reading aloud the lines in a given conversation. Their pronunciation and work is immediately assessed, giving students the possibility of going back to a line which went wrong or skip one if it too difficult or irrelevant. Although students need constant encouraging and praise at the beginning, they will then find ways to engage in conversations and develop life-long speaking skills on condition they are resilient and practice enough. Speaking is not something to define clearly and develop easily, but is surely the most rewarding and used skill throughout life, and one the now-students-future-adults are most proud of outside the classroom. 67