it is easy! Listening & Speaking

            In earning language we need to do these two important things. First is listening, second is speaking. As we can see a baby who can say a word ”mama” because she often hear her mother says “mama”. It also happens for other words. It means that people usually listen first so after that the sound of the word can recorded by our brain and it will put in our memory so we can produce the same word by saying it.

            Nowadays there are many tools which can help language learners in listening for the foreign language. it will help the learners to know how to produce the sound of the word. From the TLL class I got some websites which can be used for it. There are:

·         Interactive Audio - Picture English Lessons

·         John’s ESL Community – Listening Activities

In the other side, there are also students who can understand easily if they give responses to what they learn. Below there are websites which allow students to do the responses while listening so that they will more understand what they hear easily. Here they are

·         Live Action English Interactive

·         WII ( Game )

·         Learning Oral English

·         American English Pronunciation Practice

After they listen to the words then it is time to practice it by speaking. Below there are some websites which can be used to help teacher to do the speaking session in the class:

·         Kalinago.blogspot.com

·         ScMOOze University

·         Voice thread

By using those website, the teacher can make the learning process of speaking and listening become more fun and the students hopefully can learn easily too. Although the technologies are really help the students, the most important role still placed by the pedagogy because the technology will not created if there is nothing who need it.