This week I'm going to talk about Oral/Aural Skills, to begin as English Teachers we have to have the ability to recognize students with problems when they try to communicate or understand something or someone, that's a very common issue because learning a foreign language can be a nightmare, but this little details can be solved by practicing.
Speaking and listening always will be the most difficult aspect learning a language because when we speak, we have to produce; and when we listen we have to understand somebody else is producing, the more common situations when a learner can feel frustrated is when he/she have to speak clearly with a good rhythm and stop thinking in his mother language; in other hand when they listen, they have to understand the message and follow the speaker speed but the accent can be difficult. Well as we can see Speaking/Listening always will be related one with the other.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/
(Practice your pronounciation with British videos)
http://www.manythings.org/lar/ (Listen some drills and repeat)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1296312/Why-foreign-accents-make-speakers-honest---just-hard-try-understand.html (Reasons to improve accent and pronounciation)
There are some others links to improve listening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ (Listen good music and learn)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJi8on4TNE (Learning with cartoons)
http://www.apple.com/mx/itunes/download/
(You can download this program and listen radio from a big list of countries)
Well that's all for today, I hope you like my recommendations.
Hello alonso!
ResponderEliminarI noticed you are right. I read that listening skill is the most used but the less trained by teachers in the class and the thing that make it difficult is the kind of listening materials which sometimes are not comprehensible or adapted to students´level.
Great site!!!
see you!