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What is it ?
The WORDLE site is a very enjoyable and interesting website. It can be used to show a word cloud of a text or a webpage. It can easily be implemented in classrooms.
Why is it good for classrooms?
It helps to improve and develop students' vocabulary stocks and to keep their vocabulary active,
Students can resort to this technological tool to remember and recall what they read from a text,
I think the most important factor for using this website is that it is interesting and enjoyable activity which makes learners eager and motivated to learn the language,
Students can do it at home easily.So it can be used to encourage self- study,
Since students can choose the color and the layout that they want, wordle site can make the students responsible for their learning,
It broadens learners' knowledge about what words that match each context.
How it can be used in classes?
Students might read and discuss a text with the help of their teacher. Then the teacher copies and paste the text in the wordle site which creates a word cloud for the text. After that, he show to the students this word cloud or he can print it out and give the students copies of it. Students can read it and see how much of the text they can remember by looking at the cloud. Then they can write a summary of the text using the words that they remember from the word cloud.
Limitation
The only limitation that I can see is with having a soft copy from this site,but teachers can save or print out the word clouds.
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