Student Assignment 4: Reviewing Mobile Application and Educational Games for ELT (ELSA)

Reviewing Mobile Application and Educational Games for ELT

👉Application Name

                    ELSA (English Language Speech Assistant)

👉Application Category

                    Mobile Application

👉Application Purpose

* to help us speak correctly because we can see our mistakes in speaking.

* To make it easier to speak, train speech, and of course because there is a test we can evaluate it too.

 ELSA is an application for learning English that applies artificial intelligence and speech recognition. The technology allows a two-way learning process, for example, the user can pronounce certain words or sentences, then the system will analyze and provide input for improvement. Of course, this platform is very relevant to learning objectives, because the ELSA Speak application provides more than 1,200 lessons and more than 60 topics for users to practice pronunciation, starting from practicing pronunciation of English words, phrases, and sentences. Elsa speak also provides another feature that ELSA offers is an interactive dictionary, which will help users how to pronounce the word or phrase they are looking for useful for learning English in an interesting, creative and not boring way for students, especially for an era that is closely related to gadgets (4) .

For feedback between teachers and students, this application does not provide features for communicating teachers and students to interact directly or students and teachers can share direct messages privately, there are no features. With this technology, ELSA can detect user pronunciation errors with an accuracy of more than 95%. Users can also receive advanced feedback to correct their pronunciation errors. This is one of the things that distinguishes ELSA from other English learning apps (3). From there it can be said that this application is very accessible and its features can be understood by both teachers and students, so it is certain that students or teachers will easily operate it individually (4). The use of this application makes students motivated to do assignments because this application is not monotonous, interesting and very easy to use for the current generation, so they can also improve their talents in the field of speaking or even add insight into the intonation of emphasis when speaking. This application also makes it easier students to view the quiz by checking the features provided (4). In this application students can easily save and share their performance and product records for teachers to see by means of screenshots of the results and sent to teachers (4). Finally, ELSA is very accessible to all mobile and tablet users, although this application must be required to download the application, but it can be directly accessed via and they can login and anything for free and easily and some are paid(4).

 ELSA can be used on ELT, because on this platform there are many features that support the process of learning English creatively, such as practicing speaking, intonation when speaking, speech with interesting features, etc. In learning, teachers can give quizzes or exams easily through this application because there are features that can test students' speaking material in an interesting way and can be shared and also accessed by students. Likewise with students they can train to speak or other things that can be directly seen the results of their performance. Not only that, ELSA also has a big impact on ELT, namely ELSA can make it easier for ELT to motivate students to do and practice speaking, the speed that has been given. From this explanation, we can see that ELSA has many advantages, namely that this application can be accessed anywhere and anytime by students and teachers for free, besides that this application provides many supporting features and also makes it easier for teachers to give questions and quizzes. interesting, short and clear material and can also develop students' interests and talents in the field of speaking up or speaking.

 However, what is very unfortunate in ELSA there are also features that are limited so that they are limited, although they can be accessed without paying and also ELSA takes up a lot of memory space. And lastly, from ELSA we can use skills or language components effectively in the form of speaking and listening.