Reflection# Week-3

It is a great week for me that I have learned many things regarding teaching language using technology. At the very beginning two articles (1) Teaching Pronunciation to Adult English Language Learners URL: http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/pronunciation.html  and (2) Using Original Video and

Sound Effects to Teach English URL: http://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files /50_1_4_yassaei.pdf have drawn my attention in many ways. In the first article I have found that adult learners are good learners in pronunciation. Adult learners can be able to learn language by contrastive analysis hypothesis which is process of finding similarities and dissimilarities between L1 and L2. Moreover, I also get ideas regarding critical period hypothesis. The article also gives thoughts about accent, intonation and stress. To exercise on correct pronunciation there are many websites referred such as Randall's Cyber Listening Lab-  http://www.esl-lab.com/ and Pronunciation Stuff: https://sites.google.com/site/pronunciationstuff/links. Besides, there are other following resources web links on pronunciation:

i)                    http://www.shiporsheep.com/

ii)                   http://www.english-online.org.uk/pronounce/pronounce.htm

iii)                 http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

iv)                 http://www.spokenenglish.org/

v)                  http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html

vi)                 http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/  

Above websites must help to teach/learn language especially speaking skill correctly.

In the second article I have found how can video e.g. Television help learning/teaching language. Here we can easily get ideas about setting up video lesson or using video in classroom. For practicing language through video lesson the following websites may be helpful.

i)                    http://voicethread.com/#home

ii)                   http://www.winkball.com/

iii)                 http://livemocha.com/

iv)                 http://www.spreaker.com/

v)                  http://britishenglishcoach.com/33-ways-to-speak-better-english-without-taking-classes/

Except these for getting ideas to use technology in language there is a cluster of articles in the link: http://iteslj.org/.

Finally I am impressed reading different projects knowing different setting of classroom to use technology for learning/teaching language.

Best Regards

Prodhan Mahbub