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PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE
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March 2013 TESOL
OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
- Students will not be able to understand a word if they cannot pronounce it correctly. (Gilbert 1984; Nooteboom 1983)
- Students will not be able to pronounce a word correctly if they cannot differentiate the sounds they hear.(Gilbert, 1984; Nooteboom, 1983)
- Students need autonomy.(Hismanoglu 2004)
Gilbert, J. (1984). Clear Speech. Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension inAmerican English. Student’s Book. Cambridge: CUP.
Nooteboom, S. (1983). ‘Is speech production controlled by speech perception?’ Van denBroecke et al. (eds.), Sound structure, Studies for Antonie Cohen, Dordrecht:Foris, p.p: 183-94.
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• We can help students become (semi-) autonomous learners
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• VOICE OF AMERICA - http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/
– Captioned videos
– Audioscripts– Slower speed
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• ELLLO - http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
– Different levels– Accents– Download audio– vocabulary
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• WOICES - http://woices.com/
– Authentic recordings
– Accents– culture
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LISTEN AND WRITE - http://www.listen-and-write.com/
PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• YOUTUBE
• VIMEO
• VIDEOJUG
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jMxRki4mM
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.english-online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.manythings.org/pp/
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html
PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SCREENCAST-O-MATIC - http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
• (VIDEO) DICTATIONS– Record a message and send it to students– Students transcribe the message and send it to
the teacher
ACTIVITIES
• CHINESE WHISPERS– record a message and send to one student, who
records it to the next student
ACTIVITIES
• CORRECT THE MESSAGE– Record a message and send it to students along
with a text– Students have to listen and identify the
differences
ACTIVITIES
• NEWS REPORT– Students read the news on a website or their own
version of news
ACTIVITIES
• POETRY– Students read their own or their favorite poems
ACTIVITIES
• CREATE A GLOSSARY– Students record their own definitions to new
words
ACTIVITIES
• INTERVIEW– Teacher records first question– Students answer and record a question for the
next student
ACTIVITIES
• DESCRIBE AN OBJECT– Students describe an object for the next student
to discover
ACTIVITIES
• SELL A PRODUCT– Students tries to convince a customer to buy their
product
IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING ONLINE
THANK YOU!
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