Have students transcribe a text read by you. Students may choose to interview subjects, discuss current affairs, talk about a special interest, dissect English grammar or vocabulary, revisit history, tell stories, and so much more. Use that existing interest to fuel a semester-long podcasting project. It’s likely that a sizeable portion of your students are already podcast fans. (The moment needed for the students take out their phones to record your instructions may even provide a point of focus!) Similarly, write the homework on the board and ask them to record themselves describing the task in their own words. How often do your students forget to copy down the homework or simply not listen when you set it? Try asking them to record you as you set the day’s homework. Revise your recordings at the end of the day and delete those you no longer need to reduce digital clutter. Those to-do lists on random slips of paper are easily lost – and you may not even understand your own handwriting hours later! Combat this by using your phone’s voice recorder to maintain a constant flow of “notes to self” about student requests, items to research, questions for your department, or ideas for future lessons. These types of activities can be used to explore vocabulary surrounding feelings, greetings, small talk, describing likes/dislikes and scenes, storytelling, interjections, expressions, slang and more. Try having your class create voice overs for scenarios depicted in videos (with the sound turned off!), magazine clippings, or stock images. This enriches your teaching materials and gives you added flexibility as to how you’d like to use them in upcoming semesters (perhaps to present new themes in class, embed on a website or blog, or emailed as attachments to your students).
#Student speech recorder archive#
On the other hand, if you have an archive of Powerpoint presentations or other digital content you may find it’s effective to create narrations to play with them. You may even ask your students to record their narrations to their Powerpoint presentations as a twist on live slideshows.
Later, they can listen to themselves in pairs and identify where they tend to stumble over difficult pronunciation, “um” and “ah” excessively, or lose the thread of their speech. Get speech readyĪsk students to record their speeches before making oral presentations. They can be revisited later if necessary or used as a base from which to create more detailed notes. When students are asked to brainstorm in pairs or small groups, have them record their ideas instead of writing them. Some students write slowly or struggle with perfectionism when writing. Students can use these in peer and self-reviews or you can provide feedback on short recordings. This is a classic – and with good reason! When learners record themselves speaking they can be made aware of their pronunciation challenges and work towards eliminating them.
Whether you choose to use your phone’s app or buy a simple recorder and microphone, you’ll find there are countless ways to use voice recorders in class. Previously only carried by reporters in press hats, thanks to smartphones, voice recorders are now in everybody’s pocket.
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