Free Online Language Courses. Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers. Wikibooks. Pronunciator - Learn to Speak 60 Languages - 100% Free. Communication or Practice? | Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Speaking. In my experience as a teacher trainer, I've found that beginning teachers often confuse oral practice with real communication -- what I'm calling real communication. So you can have an active classroom with people speaking a lot, but that doesn't mean that they are actually communicating. They can be just practicing orally. And I think it's important to start off this module defining communication and looking at a checklist of defining features we'll be referring to throughout the module.
The first place to start is really with the notion of control. When the teacher has control of the activity, it's a guided practice activity. When the learner is in control, it's going to be real communication. And by that I mean, when the teacher stands in front of the classroom and tells you why you are doing what you are doing and how to negotiate every part of the activity, that's teacher-controlled, that's practice. Another way of thinking about it is how authentic or real-life the activity is. Speakado - Learn to Speak a New Language - Phrase Translation and Pronunciation.
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