suggested sites for the practice of listening, pronunciation and speaking online, with suggested activities.

1. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
eflpresentations.pbworks.com
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March 2013 TESOL

2. OVERVIEW
• PRONUNCIATION and LISTENING
• PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SUGGESTED SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

3. 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, J. (1984). Clear Speech. Pronunciation and
Listening Comprehension in
(Gilbert, 1984; Nooteboom, 1983) American English. Student’s Book. Cambridge: CUP.
Nooteboom, S. (1983). ‘Is speech production
controlled by speech perception?’ Van den
- Students need autonomy. Broecke et al. (eds.), Sound structure, Studies for
Antonie Cohen, Dordrecht:
(Hismanoglu 2004) Foris, p.p: 183-94.

4. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• We can help students become (semi-)
autonomous learners

5. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• VOICE OF
AMERICA -
http://www.voanews.
com/learningenglish/
home/
– Captioned
videos
– Audioscripts
– Slower speed

6. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• ELLLO -
http://www.elllo.org/index.htm
– Different levels
– Accents
– Download audio
– vocabulary

7. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• WOICES -
http://woices.com/
– Authentic
recordings
– Accents
– culture

8. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LIBRIVOX - http://librivox.org/

9. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• LISTEN AND WRITE
- http://www.listen-and-
write.com/

10. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• TED Talks - http://www.ted.com/

11. PRACTICING LISTENING ONLINE
• YOUTUBE
• VIMEO
• VIDEOJUG

12. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jMxRki4
mM

13. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.english-
online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm

14. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.manythings.org/pp/

15. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/pronex/pronex.htm

16. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar
/pron/

17. PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION ONLINE
• SIMILAR SOUNDS - http://www.elfs.com/MMz.html

18. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE

19. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• VOKI - http://www.voki.com/

20. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• SCREENCAST-O-MATIC -
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

21. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• FOTOBABBLE - http://www.fotobabble.com/

22. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• BABBLERIZE - http://blabberize.com/

23. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• VOCAROO - http://vocaroo.com/

24. PRACTICING SPEAKING ONLINE
• MAILVU - http://mailvu.com/

25. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

26. ACTIVITIES
• VOXOPOP – http://www.voxopop.com/

27. ACTIVITIES
• VOICETHREAD - http://voicethread.com/

28. ACTIVITIES
• (VIDEO) DICTATIONS
– Record a message and send it to students
– Students transcribe the message and send it to
the teacher

29. ACTIVITIES
• CHINESE WHISPERS
– record a message and send to one student, who
records it to the next student

30. ACTIVITIES
• CORRECT THE MESSAGE
– Record a message and send it to students along
with a text
– Students have to listen and identify the
differences

31. ACTIVITIES
• NEWS REPORT
– Students read the news on a website or their own
version of news

32. ACTIVITIES
• POETRY
– Students read their own or their favorite poems

33. ACTIVITIES
• CREATE A GLOSSARY
– Students record their own definitions to new
words

34. ACTIVITIES
• INTERVIEW
– Teacher records first question
– Students answer and record a question for the
next student

35. ACTIVITIES
• DESCRIBE AN OBJECT
– Students describe an object for the next student
to discover

36. ACTIVITIES
• SELL A PRODUCT
– Students tries to convince a customer to buy their
product

37. IDEAS? QUESTIONS? SUGGESTIONS?

38. THANK YOU!
PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION
AND LISTENING ONLINE
@claudiofleury
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
eflpresentations.pbworks.com
CALL-IS Electronic Village EV Fairs
March 2013 TESOL