TEACHING LISTENING WITH TECHNOLOGY

This week I got an assignment to give comment to some website related to the use of technology in teaching learning process. The websites are as follows:

1. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab : www.esl-lab.com
2. Real English : www.real-english.com
3. English, baby! : www.englishbaby.com
4. NPR Podcast : http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

The Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab is very cool. It is very helpful for the learners to learn listening that it has some criteria which consists some level from the easy level to difficult level so that they won't get many obstacle in learning listening through website.

Real English is kind of website used for exercising one's ability or skill in English

English, baby! is home to several thousand English lessons.Many of the lessons feature celebrities teaching a term or phrase and discussing how they learned English if it is not their first language. Celebrities who have taught English lessons on English, baby! include NBA All-Stars such as Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, Olympic gold medalist figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, and musicians Sheryl Crow and Girl Talk.

The website also produces an English lesson soap opera series and reality TV style videos. Other lessons are based on MP3s instead of videos and based on improvised conversations between native English speaking actors. Most lessons include grammar instruction, quizzes, and vocabulary words. Much of the lesson content is only available to premium "Super Members" who pay $5 per month. These members also have access to a live teacher to answer questions for them.
In addition to students, ESL teachers can create lessons on English, baby! or use content from the site in their classrooms.

NPR Podcast consists of three menu to mix your own podcast to build a custom podcast of various topics, musicians, personalities and NPR programs.