Delicious Week for Listening (Week 3)

Hello Everybody,

I always had the problem to bookmark all my favorite sites on my computer, because I never remembered the URLs whenevern I wanted to access them from different computers. This week, we learned that we can bookmark our favorite pages and access them any time from any computer. You need to have internet of course. We can do that using Delicious.com. It is easy to use and you can share your sites with colleagues and students. I also want to thank all the participants in this class for sharing their delicious pages. I found very helpful sites for teaching the different skills, especially listening.

Speaking of listening, it is amazing the number of resources we can find online to help our students develop this skill. We can also expose the students to authentic material for them to use in or out of classes. As I have mentioned in one of my posts, this is the only chance our students might have to have contact with native speeakers of the target language.

In her article Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials, Miller suggests a process for presenting listening activities in our classes, pre, while, and post listening activities. I have found this process very effective for the students to activate their knowledge of the topic in the pre-listening activities, the second stage, students are given different tasks related to the recording, and in the third stage, they can do activities which allow them to know how well they understood the recordings.

I am looking forward to the next week to continue learning about how we can implement the use of technology for our classes.

Cristian