Listening Website Links

In this post you'll find links to a number of websites that offer listening lesson plans, audio files, quizzes, podcasts, games, and more.  Enjoy!

• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab:  Developed by a teacher, this site contains well organized lessons divided into Pre-listening, Listening, & Post Listening sections.
  
  
• English Language Listening Online (ELLLO) :  Arranged by levels, this site provides a large selection of authentic recordings by native speakers and features a variety of accents.
  
  
• Talk English:  This website hosts hundreds of practical phrases and sentences for listening and pronunciation.  Arranged by topic, it serves almost as an online audio phrasebook.
  
  
• Voice of America: This well-known site hosts news stories read by native speakers in a slower, clearer voice.
  

• National Public Radio:  This American radio broadcasting network posts many of their news reports online, along with podcasts, live streaming radio, and other fun stuff.
  
  
• Classic Fairy Tales: These narrated fairy tales have some pictures and a little animation, as well.
  
  
• Focus English: Organized by topic, this site provides some useful phrases and sentences, but it's not very user friendly, as it requires RealPlayer.
  
  

Finally, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has a very comprehensive and useful set of tips for your English listening skills.  It can be accessed through their Self-Access Center:  Listening Advice.

For SKKU Students:  

• Worksheet for Lab
• Answer Sheet for Lab

For more listening links, check out ESL Gold's listening links page.

Technology: Pronunciation Links

JAZZ CHANTS

1. Jazz Chant Introduction
   
   
   
   
2. Jazz Chant Samples
   
   
   
   

Here are the links for today's Materials & Technology class:

1. SEGMENTALS: E. L. Easton Online : /f/ example
   
   
2. SUPRASEGMENTALS:
   (a) Word Stress (from English Club)
   (b) Stress & Intonation (from About.com)
   (c) Reduction (from E.L. Easton)
   (d) Linking (from Pronuncian.com)
   (e) Rhthym (from "A New Perspective on Teaching Pronunciation")
   
   
3. PRONUNCIATION GAMES: (from ESL.about.com)
   
   
4. LEARNING PRONUNCIATION: (from HKUST)
   
   
5. PRONUNCIATION VIDEOS: (from Rachel's English)
   
   
6. LISTENING & PRONUNCIATION: (from Yappr.com)
   
   
7. MOUTH & TONGUE DIAGRAMS: (from American "Clear Speech" Sounds)

Materials Project

Textbook Evaluation Project "Dry Run" Notes:  

• MC Class 
• EA Class
  

[To download, click on one of the links above.  Look for the blue disk icon in the middle of the page, and click on the link that says "download file." If you don't have a recent copy of MS Office, you may have to download the MS Office 2007 Compatibility Pack from the Microsoft website.]

Below are a few links to other people's opinions or checklists about how to analyze ESL/EFL textbooks.  SKKU students must be careful not to plagiarize or copy.  However, if these links give you some guidance or new creative approaches for evaluating your textbooks, they may be helpful to you.  

• Joshua Miekley's textbook evaluation checklist.
• The  Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) criteria and questions for selecting textbooks.

Reminder:  you will be assessed according to SKKU's 9 sections and the criteria discussed in class, not according to the materials found in these links.