Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Teaching Listening by Using Technology

Listening is one skills in learning language. We can say that listening is basic skill in learning language. So that, listening is a skill that should be studied first in learning a language.
There are many ways to learn English, one way is by using technology. There are some gadgets that can make us easier in teaching and learning listening skills. For example, by using speaker, tape-recorder, and soon.

We also can teaching and learning English by using some interactive websites that exist nowadays. Those interactive websites for examples :

1. Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (http://www.esl-lab.com/)
This website provides some videos that can be used for practicing listening. Throuh those videos, we can improve our listening ability. This website also give quizzes for checking how far we have learned about listening. There are some categories and levels of quizzes that can be appropriated with our ability in listening.


2. Real English (http://www.real-english.com/)
It is a website that provides some videos for learning listening. This website provides us some videos. We free to choose which videos that we want to watch. The video with the lesson, or video without a lesson. However, we should register first if we want to use this website and watch the video.

3. English, Baby! (http://www.englishbaby.com/)
We can say that this website just like a kind of social media. Yes, this website is a kind of social media that can help us improving our English. We should register first if we want to use this website. Through this website, we can join into English chat rooms, take quizzes related to listening, and we also can download mp3 audio in English that can make us easier and more motivated in learning English.


Through this website, we can make and mix our own podcasts. The podcast that we have made can be used for learning listening for ourselves. By using material that is made by ourselves seems can make us easier and more enjoying the learning process.



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