Useful Resources for Teachers

1. In the labs:

Virtuoso/Soloist: Making and Collecting Student Recordings

Audacity:  Handout ; Link to download program (please download both Audacity and "lame_enc.dll")

Using Simplesite: Using Simplesite Handout ; Link to Catalyst tools 

Praat:  Using Praat :A program for linguists, but students can use it to see visual feedback on pitch and rhythm. Some training is required to use this program

Wasp: Handout, Easy to use software to get visual feedback on rhythm and pitch.

Hot Potatoes: for creating interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.



3. Pronunciation

University of Iowa Phonetics This site describes the sounds of English (and Spanish) and has flash animation and video of the sounds as well.

4. Listening

NPR A great listening resource

A Hot list on Real World Listening This site has lots of different kinds of authentic listening. There are sections on narratives, public speeches and the media among others along with practice with different English skills.

5. Dictionaries/Corpora

Collins Cobuild Concordance This site is a great resource shows you examples of how words or phrases have been used by speakers of English in speech and in writing.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online Here you can search five different English language dictionaries including the Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Dictionary of Idioms.

http://foreignword.com
A multilingual dictionary site. Your choice of several different monolingual or bilingual dictionaries.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Look up words and listen to the pronunciation. It charges for some words. It doesn't use IPA.

Encarta This dictionary is similar to Merriam Webster, but does not charge for definitions or audio.