Lyrics Training

Screenshot 1: Home page of lyricstraining website

Description

A website with fun and easy method of learning language through the use of lyrics and music videos with interesting activity. You can choose from a simple description of easy, medium or hard language level. Easy Facebook login function with rooms to comment on each videos. Various selection of videos for you to choose from. You can also keep high score by registering as a website user and make new friends around while improving your listening, spelling and even social skills!

Advantages

a) Assist in vocabulary building where user can take step by step and learn vocabulary from the simplest one to the hard ones according to their own time.

b) Fun and interesting materials with various videos to suit anyone interest. They can choose videos with topics they like or even the celebrity they adore and do the activity with the video with full motivation until the end.

c) Can do activities at own pace while it encourages autonomous learning. User will be able to take their time doing the activity during their free time.

d) If you feel like taking a break you can click the Karaoke button and sing along with the artist in the video.

e) If there are videos in other languages, this website allow the function to choose other languages to filter videos in languages you want to.

Disadvantages

a) Sufficient amount of internet and computer accessories are needed if not the website cannot be used efficiently.

b) Some songs might be inappropriate for younger learners and it might be quite hard to filter the videos as there are no efficient automatic function.

c) Again, Facebook login and youtube link function can be quite distracting for learners as they might get attached to other things and not do their activity.

d) There is an awesome translation function where you get to choose from many languages. However, the big turn off is I tried clicking few languages but nothing comes out except for 'unable to perform translation' on my screen which is quite disappointing.

Suggestion to improve

One way to improve is by having an automatic under-18 restriction function to allow more room and freedom for younger learners. If this can be done, such website can attract older as well as younger learners.