Week 3 Aural, Oral, Delicious

My third week has been marked by a lot of readings to undertake including:  Lindsay Miller’s helpful illustrated tips on developing aural skills, while CALL-ing, in her article Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials;  Maria Grazia Busà’s  New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation, in which she gives in- depth explanations of different ways to improve one of the most important oral skills—pronunciation; and the sample project report A Reflection on & Action Research Report, Working with a Large Class of Grade 13 "Terminale" Students. of Tendouinde Bruno Nikiema, from Burkina Faso, whose goals were to develop his "Terminale" class students' writing skills through letter- writing and interactions by making them use e-mails in forms of invitation letters. The latter being mentioned, thanks to Nikiema’s project, those students could embrace new technology in their English learning to make the connection between what happens in the real world and what they do at school. I wonder how I will manage to work on such a good project, during week 9! Hard work!

Social bookmarking with Delicious has also marked this week. Using Delicious now makes my online life easier as I have explained in my Nicenet post on Creating a Delicious Account. It is both a time- saver and brain memory- saver.

Back to oral and aural English: if you want to have one more reading, please add this delicious link http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2006/10/oral-and-aural-skills.html to your Delicious Links. In that Peter McKenzie-Brown’s blog, there is this concluding little message which goes: “We are given two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we talk.”