From: llti@lists.iallt.org <llti@lists.iallt.org> On Behalf Of Noxon??
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2019 2:29 AM
To: llti@lists.iallt.org
Subject: [LLTI] Cloud Based LL for pronunciation practice
Hello everyone. I hope I am back on the right email list. I have a tech question for you.
Basically I am looking for a cloud-based language lab solution.
The task that I really want the kids to do is for them to be able to listen to audio that I put in, and then read it aloud, and have it written on the screen, or the audio saved.
I've been using a Google doc, and distributing a copy if it for each student with Google classroom. On the doc are practice sentences. The students read each sentence, and the Google voice recorder writes down what they say.
This is nice and all, but since I've got 40 kids in class, I can't wander around and tell them when their pronunciation is off. So they keep repeating the word incorrectly over and over and over, and it keeps writing it wrong over and over and over and they just get frustrated. so, I'd like there to be a way for them to click something and hear the "proper" sound of the word, and that way they can practice the pronunciation and not get so terribly frustrated.
There's not a really user-friendly way to do this in Google Docs without making it so that when they click a sound, it opens in another screen, and then they get confused and can't navigate back to the previous screen.
Also, I'd love for it to be a language lab kind of software, so that they could log in at home and do more work. As it is now I can't release the work to one kid without releasing it to the whole classroom. And some students work ahead faster than others.
If anyone has some sort of cloud-based solution that they work with, let me know, otherwise I'll just embed links to the files and keep using Google Docs! Thanks!
Erin Noxon