GOING UP, GOING DOWN

I thought this week would be easier. My baby got a cold and I could not create my delicious account. In fact I have one I had created a couple of years before butI signed up with twitter. I assure that posting in the blog is a way of rounding up what I have studied along the week -this is the teason why I am doing it today; there is an assignment left, though.

This week I read all the articles Donna suggested: 

         Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials: Lindsay Miller, ESL Magazin article.

         New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation: Maria Busa.

         The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills:Julia Gong.

I enjoye reading all of them. I was comparing my lessons plans with the examples Linsay Miller provides in her article. I posted my reflection in the conferencing of this week. 

Maria Busa's article caught my attention because I include pronunciation  in my classes. While I was reading the article Edu soft CDROM came to my mind - students could record their voices and compare it to a native.

Julia Gong made me reflect on the use of the new multimedia products offered by Apple in an iPad. The possibilities internet offers are amazing. The introduction of video in a lesson helps to develop speaking - students can watch gestures while natives talk.

In a nutshell, this week was hard, but I am still here learning web skills, thinking about my project.

Ethel from Argentina.