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English Central – Bringing “voice” and output to learning English.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

English Central is a new video site bringing “Voice” to learners. I’ve long written and promoted the use of both speech recognition and text to speech for language learners. English Central is at the forefront of this movement harnessing the power of new technology to facilitate language acquisition. It takes video language learning sites like [...]

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USING Vs MANIPULATING LANGUAGE

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Recently, I came across two lesson activity ideas online. On the surface both seem like good activities however one they contrasted nicely with each other and highlight the difference I see between USING and MANIPULATING language.
First the activities.

MANIPULATING Language : Cut up letters of the alphabet and put into an envelope. Maybe 5 sets of [...]

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