I’ve used music a lot with English Language Learners. Singing feels much less threatening to many who are learning a new language.
Karaoke is a good language-development activity, and there are quite a few karaoke sites on the Internet. I thought it would be a good topic for a short “The Best…” list.
In order to make it on this list, a site has to be available free-of-charge (or at least some of its resources have to be free), easy-to-use, require no download, and allow students — either alone or in a group — to record themselves singing. A link to their performance can then be posted on a student or teacher website.
There are only a few sites that meet that criteria. Here are my choices for The Best Online Karaoke Sites For English Language Learners:
Sing Snap is the newest addition to this list. It has all the best qualities of the other sites here — easy to use, free-of-charge, and, if you don’t want to record, you can just listen to others sing while the screen shows the lyrics. Using a webcam is an option, but unlike many Web 2.0 sites, you can still use it if you just have a computer microphone.
Free Karaoke Online with Lyrics – Cantanding could come in handy.
Instagram one-ups TikTok with karaoke lyrics is from TechCrunch.
Karaoke Nite is a new online tool for…karaoke.
You might also be interested in The Best Music Websites For Learning English and The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English.
I’d certainly be interested in hearing suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
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This site is great
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2.kareoke site where you
can sing songs or listen
3hear others or sing.
Last year I had a class of pre-emergent and emergent 1st grade English Language Learners. For the first three months of school the only time they seemed comfortable talking was when I handed them a microphone to sing. Thanks for this!
I was told that http://www.onlinekaraoke24.com will be a great online karaoke site.
Please also check http://www.MIKESTAR.com
Larry,
I’ve tried all these sites and I urge teachers to prepare and use something that is “safe” and offline (the reasons are obvious I think). I use the karafun player and we have thousands of songs in video and kfn (karafun studio) made by teachers from all over the world. Just download the songs and make your own extensive library for use off line. Even easily export the lyrics.
Also make your own very easily (watch the tutorials on EFL Classroom 2.0 and get the files there).
In addition, there is Go Sing. Get their player and get traditional songs. Takes awhile to download the songs individually to build a library for your students but on EFL Classroom I have a nice zip file of thousands of songs that takes seconds to download. Here is a presentation I’ve used during Karaoke workshops outlining the top 10 reasons to use karaoke in the classroom.
http://bit.ly/bGRLfd
David
http://eflclassroom.com
Is there a karoke site that allows you to change or creat your own lyrics?
Sorry, I don’t know of one.
Beth,
If you use XP, you can use the karafun player. I used to use the editor and have tutorials there on this page. Hundreds of teachers have also shared karaoke files they created. http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/karafun-get-the-player-and
My recommendation for video subtitling has kept changing over the years and as things develop. Presently, for simplicity, I recommend NCH’s Videopad. Just put in any kind of video and click + to add subtitles. Super simple.
David
New karaoke site
http://karaoke-songs.info/