Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab |
Over the years, many teachers have come up with great ideas on how they have use one or more of my sites in their language classrooms, and I think that other students and teachers would greatly benefit from your ideas. Now, I would like to write a short article about you (and even one of your classes) and add it to this section of my site. Click HERE for instructions on how to participate.
| Donna Arthur Salvo - Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA Email: dsalvo{at}mtlakes.org [Top] |
"Hello . . . . and first I must say thank you for your wonderful site.Working with deaf and hearing-impaired students, your site has provided a complete and up-to-date place for listening and language work. I am a teacher of the deaf and speech language pathologist for the Lake Drive Program in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.
I have been working for over 25 years in the field of speech language therapy and deaf education. When I am working with those students who want to train using both listening and speaking skills, I turn to your site for some of the best lessons.
The picture here is using Photo Booth on a MacBook. These students can listen to the lessons and then they can watch as they speak responses to the questions. I am on the left, and my students are watching themselves during the lesson. I will use the Pre-listening, Listening, and Post Listening exercises to enhance my therapy. It gives the therapy students pure listening since they can not read the lips of a computer (Ha Ha!) I realize lip reading is an important skill to enhance closure of conversations, when an individual is unable to hear the message, but I am trying to have the student use his or her residual hearing as much as possible.
As for how I spend my free time, I will use my free time to surf the net and find great sites to enhance my students’ language and listening development. I also enjoy watching English Premier League Football (soccer), reading with my book club of 12 years, and sitting by the beach down at the Jersey shore."
| Ric Dwyer - Rochester, Minnesota, USA Email: ridwyer{at}rochester.k12.mn.us [Top] |
I work for the Rochester Public Schools’ Adult and Family Literacy Program in Rochester, Minnesota. We are an Adult Basic Education (ABE) program, and we serve about 500 students each day. Most of our students are refugees and immigrants (I'm standing in the back row on the far left in the picture below). We also have quite a few temporary students who study with us while they are visiting the Mayo Clinic.I teach the following classes: beginning pronunciation and conversation, computer literacy, intermediate ESL, and beginning reading. I use Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab as lab work in my beginning pronunciation and conversation class. My students are expected to use the website for at least 30 minutes each day. I give my students a handout with assigned listening exercises which they are to complete with at least 80% accuracy. I also use Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab for whole group instruction in my intermediate ESL class. My students complete paper versions of the text completion and comprehension questions while I play the audio files.
In my free time, I play bass guitar in an oldies band with another teacher from our school.
| Instructions on How to Participate [Top] |
- A short description of where you work and the classes you teach.
- A summary of how you have used any of my sites to support your teaching and student learning with any comments on how students have responded to the material.
- A picture of you and/or your students. The picture is optional.
- Something unique about you and/or what you enjoy doing in your free time.
