Listen & Write >> Improve listening skills through audios and videos

LISTEN & WRITE

This website is specially designed  to help learners to improve their listening capabilities of the English language through the help of  some multimedias. In simple, it basically provides a free system that provides thousands of videos and audios for us to choose throughout our learning process. Plus, some of the audios provided are related from the latest news all around the world. So learners would not only be polishing their listening skills but also increasing thier knowledge about what is happening around the world. It also comes with different levels of difficulity (lvl 2-26) which could accommodate various level of secondary school students age 13 to 17 years old.

In order to start the activity, learners should begin by selecting the level they want to challenge themselves with and choose a topic that interest them from the news options available in that level.

Then, they need to select which mode that they prefer to do in the process.

After that, learners can start listening and try to dictate as many words as possible untill all the words are correct. Interestingly, the listening part is devided into several parts and we can choose to listen to the content as many times as we want untill all the words are correct.There is also a hint button to help use in certain time or we could easily change to different mode according to our learning rate.

Using audio only:

Why this website is very reliable for teachers or students to use:

• Apart from being completely free, this websites offers a lot of topics for the learners to choose from starting from the latest news updates or even to the knowledgble one. This will somehow generate the students interest to polish thier own skill by choosing a topic that they like.
• It also promote students to become autonomous where it is an activity that engage students to continue in their learning process and improving thier skills without any help from the teachers or anyone else.
• In fact, by listening to the speakers, students could be more familiar with different accents by different people and also learn on how to pronounce certain words correctly.
• Visual aid also provide some kind of support for the learners while they are listening by making it more real and fun to do.

Some of the limitations while using this website:

• only suitable for working individuality and not as a group. May be difficult for schools who have limited access to computers or even the internet.
• Some of the clips are easy although it is categorized as some of the difficult ones.
• students might be unfamiliar with some of the speakers's accent

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