This week we have explored the aural and oral skills and seen how much some websites could help involve our students in real-world , authentic materials with the help of text, video, and voice tools.
I have followed Pronunciation Tips from the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ and Randall's Cyber Listening Lab: http://www.esl-lab.com/ . I have commented on their features as oral/aural-skills websites and I found them both useful in enhancing the variety of approaches in listening, speaking and pronunciation. Especially the last one, because I haven’t given too much thought to this skill before, especially in the context of using websites. I have also presented http://www.onestopenglish.com/index.asp in another post and my colleagues agreed on its utility, as well.
At this point on our Nicenet discussion about this topic there is a huge amount of information about aural/oral skill-building websites which I have to explore and bookmark on my Delicious page.
I am amazed about the rich environment developed on each of our discussions and the collaborative learning that is taking place.
Thank you for your great work , course mates !
Dear Camelia,
ReplyDeleteI share the same feelings with you regarding the huge amount of information in the net… In this course we are exposed to high quality web tools and web sites. It is just amazing how fast we learn things in our daily lives! We have already got used to bookmark sites in our delicious site…
Khuloud.