CALL and Language Skills

No one can ignore the important of CALL to improve the learners' skills and the objectives of the learning process cannot be achieved only through the Spoon-feeding method inside the classrooms. Students should be involved by the teacher to Call and encourage them to learn independently. Stanford university has been wrote a useful article about " An Invitation to CALL: Foundations of Computer-Assisted Language Learning”, you can found it here.

This article inspires me to write about a useful websites for improving the listening skill and how to use them effectively with the learners. These websites are:

1-  Listen to English - Learn English! :

this website provides many podcasts about different topics which can help learners to improve their listening skill. Teacher can inform her students with this website and ask them to listen to the topic that is related to the lesson. Later, she can ask them questions related to the audio recorded to check their understanding and their attention improvement.

2-   BBC :

BBC podcasts are very useful source for improving authentic listening skill and authentic skill plays an important role in the effective use of language. Teacher can encourage her students to listen to BBC podcasts in the field they like, sport ,music or news. Later, she asks them about the new news they got from the podcasts. If they are pronounced the words correctly, this means they are listen to the podcasts carefully and got the benefit from. As you know, listening always relates to good pronunciation and we cannot separate one from the other.

3- Voice of America - Learn American English :

this another websites for listening practice, it may help the learners to acquire the American accent of English because all the audios recorded by American people. It provides the audios for two different levels which may help learners to learn in progress and achieve more benefit.

Listening skill plays an important role in the learning process. If you do not listen very will and as much as you can, you will not reach to the native speakers ability in using the language.