Saturday 22 January 2011

Using Websites #3

Improving Reading comprehensionLoudLit.org
: http://www.loudlit.org/


What is this?
  • This website is composed of a a collection of books which have been recorded. You can see the text as well as listen to someone reading it. There are various kinds of literature such as novels, poetry, children's stories, historical ones or just short stories.
  • The whole text is devided into chapters or pages which you can access to directly when you click 'listen and read'.
  • This website is useful because it is easy to access to the text and listen to it as much as possible with ease.
How might you use it to foster language learning?
  • Get the students to listen to the text for practicing pronunciation
  • Practice for reading comprenhension by asking questions after each page or chapter
  • Do the stop reading game: when one students makes any mistakes while reading aloud, anybody can shout 'stop' and continue reading from the wrong word
  • Practice finding discourse markers such as pronouns, conjucntions, repeted words, synonyms or antonyms
  • Have the students listen and read some parts in order to review or preview by themselves as their homework to improve their autonomy
What limitations should the teacher consider when using it?
  • Needs more stories according to the linguistic levels
  • More colorful and attractive design to get the students' attention
  • Including comprehension checking exercises might be needed

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