Corpus Activity

1. Choose a text to use in class in an English for academic purposes class. 2. Go to http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/ and http://www.lextutor.ca/freq/eng/ 3. Paste the text on these pages and find the frequency of the words in the text and see which word families these words belong to. 4. Prepare pre-reading vocabulary exercise by choosing the appropriate vocabulary(5 words). 5. By using the same website, find the collocations for each word and use them in the exercise.

Mobile Learning

How effective do you think mobile learning tools are for the teaching of all four skills?

Can they serve equally well for  the development of each skill across differing proficiency levels?

(You can refer to any tool you are familiar with. )

workshop

Multimedia-enhanced listening and pronunciation teaching: Deciding on the tools

Listening websites

Elllo

British Council - Listen & Watch

Sounds English

ESL Lab

Smiling Town

English Central

Can 8 Virtual Lab

ESL Bits

http://esl-bits.net

Pronunciation websites

BBC - Pronunciation 

Many things - Pronunciation activities

Pronunciation power

Before You Know it (BYKI) software

Train your accent


Image you are teaching in an institution where listening/pronunciation components are mostly neglected or aren't taught effectively.

Above you can see hyperlinks to several websites for teaching listening and pronunciation. In the light of the research covered in the class, can you check the websites, evaluate them, and choose the ones that fit you contexts best?

Your way of podcasting in language teaching

Hello everyone, 

Among all the different uses of podcasting, using them as advance organizers attracted my attention the most. So I recorded a podcast including the headlines of our presentation, and a discussion question.

Can you all create an account in the famous podcast website podomatic and go to this  link where you will hear the podcast I recorded?

You can write your answers as a comment write under the podcast, share some podcast or or other links, and more importantly, get to know the website.

See you all tomorrow.

Selahattin.

Podcasts have been very popular in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. How do you encourage the use of podcasts in your classrooms as teachers of English?

Podcast resources

Grammar Girl

Breaking News English

Podcasts in English

TED Talks

Voice of America

BBC Podcasts