Website:http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
Level & Skill: Skill is pronunciation and listening. However, I think a learner from any level could use this website. It might be to much for an early beginner, who doesn't have an ear for the language yet, but for anyone who wants some extra practice could use this site.
Interactive: Affirmative.
ESL/NON-ESL: ESL
What makes it good: It is the variety of activities available. There are minimal pairs activities, sentence listening activities. and the site provides complete lessons from their workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version. If the learner has a microphone even more activities are available. All the activities are geared towards visual and auditory learners, so they can hears the sounds, and see the phrases at the same time. There are also video clips of mouths making different sounds that morph into animated Sammy Diagrams that highlight positioning of the tongue and lips. Of course nothing could teach pronunciation as well as interacting with native speakers, and there is no way that the computer can correct the learner or interact with them, but this could still help the learners practice. And since the learners can practice in the comfort of their own home they might be more willing to let themselves go and speak aloud, taking risks. I highly suggest anyone who reads this to check out the site and play around with it.
About Me
- Eric
- I have been blowing minds since 1981, and I plan to continue blowing minds through the education system. My original plan was to brainwash my students into being good little socialists who would vote NDP, but now I have decided I would just teach english as a second language...I guess I could still try to brainwash them.
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