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22 Great Posts For Language Learners from 2012 | The Everyday Language Learner

Aaron G Myers presents an annotated list of posts language learning bloggers which he found inspirational in 2012.

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During a week of phonetics orals for EFL students at my university, it's nice to see more ideas to help learners get out there and make progress ...

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chat bot - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

chat bot - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0 | Learning technologies for EFL | Scoop.it

Type in chat and get text chat with text-to-speech in reply.  

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Not entirely coherent, but perhaps entertaining for intermediate to advanced learners.

jillyfrees's curator insight, May 6, 3:31 AM

She's cute and disarming - but she can't handle embedded questions! Have to think about how to use her in the ESL classroom. (I suspect the students will enjoy 'her').

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Free online Dictionary of English Pronunciation - How to Pronounce English words

Free online Dictionary of English Pronunciation - How to Pronounce English words | Learning technologies for EFL | Scoop.it

Vanessa Vaile:

"Need pronunciation help? This free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation might be just the app for you.  Type a word into search blank. When your entry appears in pink, mouse over to hear it pronounced. Create lists of up to 15 entries like this: cat; cart; cut; caught etc. There are currently 158,480 entries in the dictionary."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Free Text to Speech Tools for Schools

Free Technology for Teachers: Three Free Text to Speech Tools for Schools | Learning technologies for EFL | Scoop.it

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Richard Byrne says "Text to speech tools can make the web more accessible to some students. These three free tools can be helpful to students who need a little support when reading articles on the web."

 

 They all run on Chrome.


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Pronunciation: phonetics, transcription, text-to-speech

Pronunciation: phonetics, transcription, text-to-speech | Learning technologies for EFL | Scoop.it

A dozen tools for pronunciation and phonetics: dictionaries, phonetic charts, speech archive, text-to-speech, collected on Meaki by Nik Peachey.

 

Nice to have it all together on one page.

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