INSETT - Using ICT for pronunciation

A practical hands-on session giving you time to investigate:

• ELT pronunciation software
• interactive web resources for practising sound production, matching pairs, rhymes, limericks and games
• web-based publishing options, such as vokis and voicethread, for recording and assessing your students' progress
  
• using the MP3 recorder and producing podcasts with your classes
  

ELT pronunciation software
We have the Sky Pronunciation suite installed on Front Office computers which consists of:

• practising similar sounds - students can record themselves and compare their pronunciation with the original
• working on word and phrasal stress
  
  

Interactive web resources
Here you can find an extensive list of pronunciation web resources
Some favourites from the list:

• a phonetics site where students can see and hear how the different vowel and consonant sounds are produced (click on American English)
• mouseovermusic.com where students can move your mouse over the lyrics and hear a song
• shiporsheep.com where students can practise minimal pairs (similar words where just the vowel sound is different)
• stress monsters - a game where students can test their knowledge of which syllable is stressed in a word

For primary age kids:

• phonics practice
• word games practising consonant sounds and rhyming words
• words that sound the same, word patterns and counting syllables
• rhyming words
• practising the past tense of verbs
• learning to read and distinguish sounds

Web-based publishing options:

• instructions on creating and using vokis

• instructions on creating and using voicethreads
  

Producing podcasts

• instructions and examples