Most of my students find it really difficult to develop their productive skills: speaking and writing.
Using the Internet, you can get a lot of exposure! You can watch movies, read and listen to articles online, to the news, and so on. You can find books, read magazines, blogs... however, when it comes to productive skills, it's a different story.
It seems hard to get the chance to get real and meaningful communication going on... isn't it so?
Can you find any resources to develop speaking and writing?
1- Write your ideas here including links.
2- Try some of your classmates' ideas and comment on them.
Lyrics Training- Excellent Interactive Lyrics Site
ResponderEliminarAn interative lyrics site that allows your students to learn songs by completing the words. What is so great about it is all the interaction that takes place and the variety of songs it caters for. Students love it.
http://www.lyricstraining.com/
Dvolver-Fun dialogue building tool
Simple animation tool that allows you to create some fun dialogues and then share them with teachers and students. Great introduction tool to technology as it is so easy to use. Students can create a dialogue in a matter of minutes. This particular site is great for adults and teenagers.
http://dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html
Maria de los Angeles Rojas
Jana Strohbach
Barbara Valenzuela
Wow, I loved Dvolver!! It's really easy to use and a lot of fun. So is lyrics training.
EliminarThank you for your contribution
Comment: Brilliant article. Interesting, informative and insightful. Thanks for sharing.
ResponderEliminarVoxopop: is a web based audio tool that enables users to record their speaking for others to listen and respond to.
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.voxopop.com/
listen and write: is a dictation exercise creation tool, which you or your students can also create your own
http://www.listen-and-write.com/
these tools can help to improve speaking and writing skills.
Giannina Herrera- Yasna Roa
Excellent
EliminarAs we all know speaking and writing are one of the most complicated skills to develop in schools so to explain them we need to be very creative to apply this content.
ResponderEliminarhere we have some links
Speaking
http://www.voxopop.com/.
- Voxopop is a site which is similar to Voicethread but doesn't have pictures. Students and teachers can start a discussion with a question. Others can reply with their voice. Teachers can listen to the student's replies and assess their speaking using a general rubric. It’s a very good page if you want to have a class discussion one day with your students.
- http://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations. This makes VoiceThread the platform for teaching, learning, training, and collaborating, on-demand.
Writing
spellchecker.net.
-" Checking text and creating error-free emails and documents has never been easier. Our free, web-based service allows you to check grammar and spelling with one click. "
http://flashcardstash.com/
WordStash
Teachers can sign up for a free account and create word lists to support written text. With a click of a button, students can access dictionary information and create flash cards for review.
Constanza Valdivia
Carla Quintanilla
Great!!
Eliminarhttp://shugarmami.blogspot.com/2012/11/productive-skills.html
ResponderEliminarIn writing activity we propose to use facebook, because it could results a good chance to foster and improve the writing on students.
ResponderEliminarthe idea of using facebook is post a set of interesting topics to be commented. our propose to this is include this link http://kiosko.net/ which the students can find all the newspaper and current news around the world.
here students could comment every news and recomend that to them call the attention.
This kind of activity is appropiate for senior students.
http://www.facebook.com/
*Rebeca Pino
*Rolando Contreras
*Aldo Alvarado
*Inelia Gòmez
*Claudia Cabrera
That's a good idea, and it may be really useful to integrate culture
EliminarCan you find any resources to develop speaking and writing?
ResponderEliminarWe think you can find any resources in the internet to develop any skill, for example in this page:
1.- http://livemocha.com/
You will learn to speak or write with native people of some country, I think this page is very interesting and entertaining to learn or maybe for teach.
To improve writing skills we can use the web page www.grammarly.com which consists in an instant grammar checker.
Also, we can use the social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Messenger to practices our communicative skills through conversations.
Camila Barrera
Lissete Gajardo
Milenka Gutièrrez
Alejandro Moreno
Wow... Livemocha is excellent!!
EliminarThe grammar coach seems the perfect tool to avoid plagiarism.
Well done!
For teachers is very essential to teach speaking skills to develop competences on students who want to communicate in a effective way. Students have to practice every day with the guidance of the teacher, who monitors the process and, also the students need to practice by themselves. They have to speak as much as possible.
ResponderEliminarThere are some activities that teachers can apply to their students when teaching speaking such us Role play activities, teaching songs, follow and giving instructions games like “Simon says” and so on.
Here we found two interesting links where students can be exposed to English language by listening and videos with their scripts.
www.voaspecialenglish.com
www.bbclearningenglish.com
Group: Aldo Alvarado
Claudia Cabrera
Rolando Contreras
Inelia Gomez
Rebeca Pino
Ok, but how can we exploit media resources to increase the opportunities of real communication?
EliminarAs aldo's group says, develop speaking skill is one of the most important points in education because today's reality needs students and people which actually can communicate using the ELF language.
ResponderEliminarCarla Quintanilla
Constanza Valdivia
reading skills:
ResponderEliminarRead as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the structure, unfamiliar words etc as you read. There is no need that you stick to some complicated grammar structures or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them for example in other passages or books is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or structures in it. To begin reading, I recommend the Penguin Readers books. They are classified by level of difficulty.
As for listening, there are two options:
Aside from reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes.
You can only concentrate on your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening.
http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/becoming-fluent-in-speaking-writing-english.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5891397_improve-writing-speaking.html
http://www.helping-you-learn-english.com/improve-my-speaking-and-writing-skills.html
Cynthia Jimenez
Good, but remember that productive skills are speaking and writing; reading and listening are receptive skills
EliminarOh sorry!!
Eliminarhttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/communications/
in this page you can find as teacher interesting tips to develop speaking and writing, here there are links to do some exercises and pieces of advice "wat to tae into consideration" or not.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/forum-topic/speaking-skills
the best way to learn something is taking into consideration some advice of your colleagueare, I mean here there are a huge amount of comments from other teachers that wrote their own experiences.
http://www.babycenter.com/0_fun-activities-for-promoting-speaking-skills_68083.bc
we don't have to forget to learn how to speak to our children. This page take a lot into consideration of teaching speaking to our babies.
http://www.esl-galaxy.com/speaking.html
http://www.learnenglish.de/ImproveEnglish/improvespeakingpage.htm
http://www.englishmedialab.com/
www.grammarly.com
Eliminaryou can improve your grammar, an online site that check grammar for you as well as spellchecker.net.
also the uses of tweeter, facebook and blogs allow you to train you hand (train writing) and as teacher you can use this type of tasks to guide the leaning process.
Productive skills
ResponderEliminarde CARLA ANTONIA QUINTANILLA MARILEO - jueves, 8 de noviembre de 2012, 17:21
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As we all know speaking and writing are one of the most complicated skills to develop in schools so to explain them we need to be very creative to apply this content.
here we have some links
Speaking
http://www.voxopop.com/.
- Voxopop is a site which is similar to Voicethread but doesn't have pictures. Students and teachers can start a discussion with a question. Others can reply with their voice. Teachers can listen to the student's replies and assess their speaking using a general rubric. It’s a very good page if you want to have a class discussion one day with your students.
- http://voicethread.com/
VoiceThread bridges the gap between real-time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations. This makes VoiceThread the platform for teaching, learning, training, and collaborating, on-demand.
Writing
spellchecker.net.
-" Checking text and creating error-free emails and documents has never been easier. Our free, web-based service allows you to check grammar and spelling with one click. "
http://flashcardstash.com/
WordStash
Teachers can sign up for a free account and create word lists to support written text. With a click of a button, students can access dictionary information and create flash cards for review.
Constanza Valdivia
Carla Quintanilla
keyla castro
María del Castillo
Patricio Onetto