Week # 3 : Aural/oral skill, Delicious page, Sample project report

This week has been very important in the sense that I have clearly foreseen and understood what I will have to do by the end of the course. This week has been very rich and represents a turning point in the achievement of the final project.

The resourceful richness of the week lies in the qualitative and quantitative amount of teaching materials we have gone through, especially the ones for building aural/oral skills.

AURAL/ORAL SKILL-BUILDING

http://www.sinew.com.tw/e_plus_lab.html

We have been guided through abundant resources for teaching listening and pronunciation, taking into account stress, intonation and rhythm. I have found some of the sites containing the aural/oral resources very interesting and potentially useful for my students. The ones I selected are:

-http://www.esl-lab.com/ (Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab)
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/081222_download.shtml

In fact they fit the french-speaking context in which I am teaching. They are true means of giving exposure to real life conversations from native speakers of English. Moreover, they can help enhance vocabulary and grammar skills of learners of various levels of proficiency.

http://www.sinew.com.tw/e_plus_lab.html

MY DELICIOUS PAGE

Creating a Delicious page and adding links were a bit challenging, and I have met  the challenge.The address of my page is :
https://delicious.com/latavitalbeug

I notice that this application is very helpful in  storing important links and sharing them with a community.

So far, I am still fumbling and I hope I will soon master all the tips of Delicious.







SAMPLE PROJECT REPORT

I have chosen the past project report by Tendouinde Bruno Nikiema from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso because the audience and the context he described are nearly similar to my teaching environment.

He has included all the elements of the project report rubric and mentioned that he had taught his students the basic things to know about computer and the internet. He has succeeded in combining a practical goal with language requirements, reading and writing. What he has done is a great achievement that gives me a clear idea of what I have to do.