WEBSKILLS 2013: ARTICLES AND LINKS

WEEK 3: Building oral aural skills.

1-Speaking, pronunciation and listening websites

Best sites to practice speaking English (By Larry Ferlazzo)

Pronunciation tips from the BBC

Some techniques for teaching pronunciation (By David F. Dalton)

Robert's site of useful resources for teachers and students of pronunciation

listening Real english video authentic speech by authentic native and non native and non native speakers.

Randall's cyber listening lab : this is one of the few web sites that include pre-while-and after listening.

English Baby! (audio, video and chat for independent study. high-intermediate and advanced level. free but must register)

English Central (an interesting attempt to give feed-back to listening. free, but must register)

NPR podcasts many topics with transcripts.

The pedagogy-technology interface in Call Academic article.

Vacaroo for the classroom K12 teacher's blog for teachers.

2-Speaking lesson plans

These are just a sampling of the many lesson plans available online. Look through them to see if there is something that fits your class and your students.

One stop English

Esl About.com

Esl galaxy Communicative lesson plans