Aussprache üben - Pron Pal

Mit dem kostenlosen Programm „Pron Pal“ des British Council kann die englische Aussprache in folgenden Themenbereichen geübt werden: body, clothes, family, food, numbers, Christmas und furniture. Über ein an den Computer angeschlossenes Mikrofon wird die eigene Aussprache aufgenommen, auf dem Computer gespeichert und vom Sprecher mit dem Original verglichen werden. Die Auswahl an Themen wird ständig erweitert. Pron Pal ist für jüngere Lerner entwickelt, die mit ihren Eltern zuhause damit arbeiten. Das Programm ist aber so einfach zu bedienen, dass dazu eine Ünterstützung durch Eltern nur anfangs notwendig ist.

Eltern bzw. Lehrer müssen sich auf dieser Seite registrieren.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/parents-downloads-pron-pal.htm

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About "livemocha" in the New York Times

“Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home”

Paul Aoki, director of the language learning center at the University of Washington, Seattle, signed up at LiveMocha primarily to see if his students might benefit. He says he thinks the site’s social networking component makes it useful. “It seems to be a pretty powerful opportunity for people around the world to connect with language partners,” he said.

He also likes the chat capability. “Doing voice and text chat simultaneously is very useful,” he said. “If you don’t understand something your language partner is saying,” he said, even when people at the other end speak slowly, “they can type it out and you can read it.”

Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of education at Indiana University in Bloomington, is specializing in ways to integrate online technologies into teaching. He says LiveMocha is part of an explosion of educational resources for language learning on the Web.

“You no longer have to learn language as an individual in a silo somewhere, using a canned program on a CD-ROM,” he said. “Instead, you have thousands of tutors to pick from — if the first one doesn’t work out, you can choose another.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/business/17novel.html