Listening+practice

I wanted to get students speaking into a computer microphone and speaking to prompts coming to them from the computer to promote and improve their oral proficiency. If oral proficiency is the ability to sustain a conversation with another person, and listening to the other person is an important part of that interpersonal communication, I also wanted to give students listening practice that they could engage in both in and out of class.

Listening tools: Slow Spanish Voki Piratas AudioPal

I wanted to give them practice listening both to the voice with which they are most familiar- mine- as well as other voices. So I looked for ways of recording my own voice and making those recordings available for student listening practice and I looked for other audio materials on-line.