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May 12, 12:04 PM
VOA Special English - karaoke-style videos where each word is highlighted in turn as the speaker reads. This one is an agricultural report.
While these videos certainly support autonomous language practice, some imagination is required to make them effective for learning. I suppose minimally a teacher would need to make sure the text was comprehensible, but I'm not sure what a good task or learning activity would look like either. Delete the scoop?
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The Listening Project is a BBC Radio initiative, in partnership with the British Library, to capture the nation in conversation. Listen to conversations from across the country, record and share your conversation. 
Marie Dossogne's comment,
April 2, 8:58 AM
surely for advanced esl students but great source for listenings!!!
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Audio and video resources for the classroom - all ages
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Des liens vers des ressources audio/vidéo pour les apprenants d'anglais Delete the scoop?
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This looks like a nice little trick ... No such thing as too many ways to record and share audio for language teaching. Delete the scoop?
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Connecting with other learners can always be a useful tool - and for language learning, connecting with native speakers of the target language is just about the best practice you can get. Via Yuly Asencion, Shona Whyte
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Direct link: http://www.palabea.com/ Delete the scoop?
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January 26, 8:22 AM
Seems very interesting, but I need time to test and see how it could be embbed in the lessons. Delete the scoop?
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RhinoSpike is an online language learning community tool that lets users around the globe connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker!
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This could be nice for language teacher training: have trainees make and request recordings and evaluate the outcomes.
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January 15, 2:39 AM
Home page says: Submit some text that you want read aloud in a foreign language. Record your voice for an Audio Request in your native language. Download the audio file for your submission. Learn the language through real, native input. Delete the scoop?
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Students seems to get frustrated very quickly when it comes to listening. Here are a few simple ideas to help students improved their listening skills, without too much pressure! Click on the link for an explanation of how to conduct each activity.
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Ideas for listening comprehension in language classes from the languagepoint.com. Delete the scoop?
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Sites and links to sites with free English audiobooks recommended by Richard Byrne. Delete the scoop?
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Posts about Storytelling written by oupeltglobal
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Accounts of using storytelling in different EFL/ESL contexts
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Rationale and ideas for teaching learners to tell personal stories, including a template (abstract, orientation, remarkable event, reaction, coda) and practice activities (4-3-2 retells), based on research and classroom experience.
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Carolyn Kerr's ELT blog post on listening problems (with French L1 learners):
Certain sounds emerged as common problem areas:
/n/ – all of the learners – ‘some flowers’ – ‘sun flowers’
/ʤ/ – five of the learners – ‘jeep’ – ‘cheap’
/ɑ:/ – five of the learners – ‘hat’ – ‘heart’
/h/ – five of the learners – ‘ill’ – ‘hill’
If anyone has any insights or observations around these clusters of problem sounds in terms of sound reception I’d be very glad to hear about it! They seem to be ‘typical’ problem sounds for French speakers but I’d love to know more if anyone has any ideas.
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An easy listening game about British painters, using learning apps, Quia and Rhinospike.
Via Renee Maufroid, Esther, Shona Whyte
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Nice use of online tools to create listening exercises. Learners could do this too for speaking practice with the goal of creating quizzes for other learners.
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April 8, 10:06 AM
Listen to audio descriptions of paintings and painters, then choose from a list of answers.
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April 12, 10:49 AM
Be sure to click to open the audio portion of the activity.
If you like this type of resource, you might want to follow Shona Whyte's topic,"Learning technologies for EFL"
http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-technologies-for-efl
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WeSpeke is a free and open global language platform and marketplace cultural exchange where users teach, learn and practice languages.
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“Extensive Watching“. I’d like to outline this important concept for language learning here and get your own feedback, opinion, thoughts. (and this compliments what I’ve also termed, “Narrow Watching“.
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My colleague Geoff Sockett at the University of Strasbourg has been looking at this as part of informal learning http://prismelangues.u-strasbg.fr/uploads/media/Eurocall_handout_01.pdf Interesting and important topic - what are learners getting out of this type of exposure to English, and is there a role for teaching to help them get more?
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February 28, 1:16 PM
Why watching your favourite series can help you learn English.
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Interroger un chercheur éloigné, discuter avec un correspondant d'un autre pays, rencontrer un écrivain à distance ? En cours de sciences, de langues ou de lettres, il est possible de réaliser une conférence téléphonique. Et pourquoi ne pas la mettre en ligne sur internet ?
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Yves Carmeille's comment,
January 27, 4:53 AM
vous devriez utiliser Eyedo c'est quand même plus simple.
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luisa pasquali's comment,
January 24, 11:00 AM
In my opinion this website s pretty well structured. It is true that it is not very easy to navigate but I think once you get the hang of it, you will not have problems. I agree about the fact that the website it´s more appropriate for adults and not beginners learnears of English. What I like the most about this site is that all the videos have transcriptions, which may be very usefully for a learners.
Benjamin Binzer's comment,
January 24, 11:01 AM
I agree, it's really not easy to navigate through the website which is a bit annoying. I also agree that the website is more appropriate for adult learners and therefore not really useful for secondary school, not even for 10th grade in my opinion.
What I want to add is that you can prepare and do exercises for an IELTS test. So if a pupil wants to go to USA, for example, you can recommend him this page as an exercise page. The test itself seems helpful, but I am not an expert concerning IELTS.
What I want to add is that you can prepare and do exercises for an IELTS test. So if a pupil wants to go to USA, for example, you can recommend him this page as an exercise page. The test itself seems helpful, but I am not an expert concerning IELTS.
Markus Hartmann's comment,
January 24, 11:04 AM
The site is especially designed for learners from Vietnam and Indonesia, since there are also translations in these languages
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Grâce à fleex, apprenez l’anglais avec les vidéos que vous aimez. A partir des séries TV et films stockés sur votre disque dur, fleex construit à la volée une vraie expérience éducative pour vous permettre d'améliorer votre pratique de la langue. A court d'idées ? Choisissez dans notre catalogue l’une des 1000+ vidéos que nous avons sélectionnées pour vous !
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Videos for French learners of English.
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January 18, 11:11 AM
Reportage ici
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24361-fleex-apprendre-l-anglais-grace-aux-series-tv.html
avec 3 kilomètres de commentaires - l'apprentissage de l'anglais par les films en VO, sous-titrés, doublés, ça suscite de vives émotions ...
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A nice range of tasks based on web video resources, including links, step-by-step instructions, and variations for different proficiency levels.
More activities for C1/C2 learners on this blog: http://allatc.wordpress.com/
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Voici un répertoire de sites qui proposent gratuitement des flux de fichiers audio (ou vidéo) pour l’apprentissage de l’anglais.
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January 2, 11:24 AM
Une bonne vingtaine de sites, y compris portails, cours pour objectifs spécifiques, jeunes apprenants francophones. If you can't find anything to suit, you're not trying.
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January 9, 2:36 AM
The initial commentary is in French, but the list of podcasting resources for learning English is quite accessible.
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French EFL students' choice: listening, speaking & pronunciation resources
LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Multiple choice comprehension questions on graded audio recordings of scripted dialogues, plus vocabulary and grammar exercises.
60 second recordings of scripted monologues, with gap-fill, spelling, and discussion exercises.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Huge range of listening (audio, video) and pronunciation (transcription) resources with learning activities.
NB: This site uses a variation on IPA (/e/ instead of /ɛ/; length markings; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects)
http://www.talkenglish.com/Listening/ListenAdvanced.aspx
Scripted dialogues with multiple choice questions and scripts.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/media/spelling-challenge-v2/
Oxford dictionaries spelling challenge: type each word you hear to see how well you can spell
Texts read aloud followed by vocabulary practice with audio and comprehension questions
http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com
Watch movie trailers with clickable transcripts allowing you to jump to a particular place in the trailer.
http://tinytexts.wordpress.com
Native speakers read short texts aloud, which listeners can follow onscreen or
print a PDF with a gap-fill exercise. There are also vocabulary definitions.
Scripted audio and video clips with optional captions and comprehension questions.
http://www.lyricstraining.com/
Fill in the blanks as you listen to and watch music videos.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/video/blog/
The US Public Broadcasting Service features a daily video news report with transcript and discussion questions.
EXTENSIVE LISTENING
Video clips under 10 minutes featuring famous and ordinary individuals interviewed on all sorts of topics. (You also have the option of videorecording and uploading your own story.)
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
Listen online or download mp3 files to hear novels chapter by chapter. LM Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Paul Auster's The Red Notebook, and Dickens' Great Expectations were favourites.
Streaming and downloadable free audiobooks
http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/
Fairy stories and classic books to listen to and read online or via podcast.
http://www.chockadoc.com/nostradamus-2012/
Over one thousand full-length documentaries in English on a variety of topics.
SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
http://www.englishcentral.com/videos#!/index
2 minute video extracts with optional subtitles, followed by vocabulary practice (type the word you hear, check native pronunciation with clickable phonetic symbols; repeat a word into your mic and get immediate feedback). Share on Facebook.
Live audio/video chat
http://www.practicespeakingaforeignlanguage.com
https://www.verbling.com (chat with native speakers)
http://livemocha.com: Live text, audio or video chat with other learners of English. You can also record a video role-play for feedback from a native speaker (but only once without paying).
PHONETICS & PRONUNCIATION
http://www.cambridge.org/other_files/Flash_apps/Pronunciation/
The phonemic chart plus sounds, stress and intonation exercises.
NB: This site uses a variation on IPA (/e/ instead of /ɛ/; length markings; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects)
http://pronunciationcoach.com/
Short explanations and advice for hearing and producing English sounds.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
The Sounds of American English: articulatory phonetics of vowels and consonants with animation, video and transcription
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What university students in France choose to work on for a complementary self-study assignment in an introductory class on phonetics for pronunciation skills.
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December 21, 2012 9:40 AM
My second year English majors found more listening than speaking activities, but some daring individuals tried out a number of free live audio/video chat sites designed for language learning.
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Dave Dodgson explains how to use Voicethread to help young learners listen to their classmates' picture narrations. He uses Audioboo to record his learners when the classroom internet is slow, and later uploads to Voicethread to share with learners and their parents.
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Nice description of pedagogical value of activity as well as nuts-and-bolts how-to.
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A straightforward account of teaching songs to young learners including step-by-step instructions, plus some theoretical background and links for more song resources.
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"Watch videos of famous scientists, authors, movie makers and artists telling their stories and be inspired to record and share your own."
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So many possibilities for learning and teaching languages.
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The easier it is to find free images for teaching, the more teachers can share materials ...