ELT MOOC by Jason R. Levine on WiziQ. This is a professional development massive Open Online Course in listening and pronunciation techniques. MOOC team organisers: Dr. Nellie Deutsch Sylvia Guinan

1. How to Effectively
Use Online Tools and
Resources with Your
Students
by Jack Askew
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2. This Presentation Will Cover
1. Problems learners have with improving their pronunciation.
2. How to solve these problems.
3. What resources we can use to help with specific sounds.
4. How we can use email and other online tools.
5. Examples of how I have done this.
6. Focus will be on group lessons.
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3. Pronunciation Problems for English
Learners (1)
Unable to produce specific sounds.
● Specific problems in your niche.
● /t/ and /d/ for Spanish speakers.
● Vowels.
● /r/ and /l/ sounds for Chinese speakers.
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4. Pronunciation Problems for English
Learners (2)
Lack of exposure, practice, and evaluation
● Most traditional lessons, but especially group lessons.
● Difficult to evaluate everyone during the lesson.
● Some students are shy in the classroom.
● Homework usually focuses on reading and writing, and
listening and speaking aren’t practiced.
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5. How We Can Solve These
Problems
Specific Sounds
● To be able to say these sounds, need to know how.
● Feedback and evaluation.
● Practice: build muscle memory.
More General Exposure, Practice and Feedback
● Include pronunciation in every lesson.
● Resources for outside the class.
● Evaluate our students in private.
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6. Blended Learning
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Resources
Download materials.
Exposure, practice, and evaluation.
Communication.
What We Need
● Email
● Social networks
● Website
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7. Resources for Specific Sounds
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● Consonant Chart - /t/ and /d/ in Spanish and English
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8. Resources for Specific Sounds
Videos of Different Sounds - /r/ and /l/ sound for my
Chinese students
http://uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
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9. Practicing Specific Sounds
Audacity - To record your own drills.
● All for one and one for all.
● I went to school, saw a snake, and felt stressed.
● The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled
the throne throughout Thursday.
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10. Sending These Sounds
Dropbox - Send these recordings.
Can also upload them to your website.
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11. Evaluating Your Students
Soundcloud
www.mimicmethod.com
Student uploads recording
You give feedback
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12. More General Exposure, Practice,
and Evaluation
Example Using Phrasal Verbs (sort out, bring up put up
with)
● Go through the traditional teaching methods.
● Normal to give written homework or exercises.
● Instead of doing this, bring in linking and extra
practice at home.
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13. More Exposure and Practice at
Home (2)
Using Audacity, Dropbox, and Email
Record different phrases:
○ We’ve run out of it.
○ Don’t bring it up again.
○ I’ve had to put up with it for too long.
Make them available through Dropbox.
Send an email with the link to the students to download.
Use Soundcloud to evaluate your students.
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14. Using Soundcloud to Evaluate Your
Students
Example with the first conditional
● My Russian students struggle with this tense.
● Have problems with intonation and linking.
● Used the film Taken as an example of the first
conditional.
“If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will
not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will
look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
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15. Using Email to Bring Everything
Together provider is
Can use regular email but an email service
better:
● Can send homework and resources before or after the
lessons.
● Can send this automatically on a schedule.
● Reminders about homework and lessons.
● Build your own list for the future.
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16. Thank You + Free
Ebook
You can download my free ebook on how to teach online here:
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