Saturday, December 25, 2010

Online resources in listening, speaking and pronunciation

Study spoken English free, from spokenenglish.org (simply mouse over language patterns to hear them instantly spoken)

Purdue's Oral English Test Tutorial (Note: Windows Media Player and Quick Time Video Player required for the practice test and tutorial movie)

Listening skills, from One Stop English (Miles Craven)
Listening skills: jazz chant (with MP3 and recording script)
Listening skills: lesson plans (worksheets, teacher's notes, recording scripts and MP3 files)
Listening skills: listening to the news
Listening skills: how to teach listening

The Reading Room - English Comprehension, from English The International Language (practice your reading skills and improve your vocabulary through selected Articles and Stories, with instant feedback in the True/False questions)

100 free short stories for ESL learners with listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises, from Rong-chang Li (Note: In order to listen to the real audio, you need to install the free Real Player. To see the definitions and hear the pronunciation of any word in the stories, you can install the free 1-click Answers program).

Learn English with the news, Read and listen to articles, from Simple English News

Wired for Books, from WOUB Center for Public Media, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio hUniversity (hundreds of hours of spoken audio in English of a tremendous range of poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults)

Accent Reduction: Tongue Twisters with audio, from ESL Mania

Authentic American Pronunciation, from Eva Easton

Online Language Laboratory, from www.fonetiks.org (online pronunciation guides to nine varieties of the English language (American, British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Australian, Canadian, and South African), and nine other languages; Instant sound; Pronunciation samples by over 40 native speakers; All 1,000+ pages free)

Free online dictionary with Instant Sound, from howjsay.com

Learn English online, from Open English World (free online lessons and activities in conversation, vocabulary, pronunciation, business English, and idioms)

International Phonetic Alphabet Charts, from Paul Meier Dialect Services

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