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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Teaching Listening with ICT



Teaching Listening with ICT

Here, English is the universal language and the government put English in the curriculum to draw up the young generation for facing the global era.
Listening as comprehension is the traditional way of thinking about the nature of listening. Indeed, in most methodology manuals listening and listening comprehension are synonymous. This view of listening is based on the assumption that the main function of listening in second language learning is to facilitate understanding of spoken discourse. We will examine this view of listening insome detail before considering a complementary view of listening – listening as acquisition. This latter view of listening considers how listening can provide input that triggers the further development of second-language proficiency.
There are some website which can be used for helping us as the would be teacher as follows.

Real English is based on a very simple idea, the organization of spontaneous speech. There are no actors here. All the people in the videos are simply being themselves, speaking normally.
Michael Marzio and his friends & teachers started interviewing people on the streets of the USA, Great Britain, and other countries during school vacations, came back to his language center in France, and edited the video according to classic grammar structures & functions, in order to make the spontaneous, authentic, seemingly fast speech usable by different levels of students, including beginners.Classroom English is all too often "perfect" with slow short phrases spoken on the audio and video materials used with students. This is fine until the learners actually meet genuine Americans, British people, and other Anglo-Saxons, to discover that nobody, in the real world, speaks "classroom English".
The idea was to take the shock out of hearing real English for the first time. Since our students now watch and listen to real people, the shock is built into the method itself, saving learners many hours of frustration during their first weeks in new English-speaking environments.


English Baby is a social media for learning English. The site is arranged with some forums to do chatting with some friends who join it. There are three main parts of English Baby. The first part is English lesson. The learners will find some TOEFL Tips and Tricks. The second part is Find Friends. This parts makes the site to be different from another sites because it allows the learners to connect with another learners or teachers from around the world. The third part of this site is English, baby!  It is about the big outline of English Baby.

NPR Podcasts is a website which is created under National Public Radio. It concerns of providing some information in many topics such as politic, law and health. Besides the learner can enjoy the news, they can get visual portrayal in the form of picture. If the learners wanted to improve their listening skills through their website, they can go to NPR podcasts directory. There are some podcasts from many topics. All of them have been arranged based on some arrangement. The first arrangement based on the topic of podcasts and the facility will group the podcasts into Food, Animal, Science, Pop Culture, etc. The next arrangement is based on the title. The podcasts will be presented based on their titles. The last arrangement is based on the provider. This facility will enable the learners to find put some podcasts based on their providers.

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