In class: Work on language - students recording themselves using ipadio; students do communicative speaking task; teacher gives whole class feedback using Whatsapp web on IWB. Then students record themselves repeating the task.
Out of class: Teacher gives Individual feedback and evaluation of recordings on ipadio web and Edmodo. Students then add their best recordings to their e-portfolios on WordPress
Six steps to oral fluency - British Council Teachers Conference 2015: "Learning to Learn"
1. Six Steps to Oral Fluency
1. Work on language - including students
recording themselves using ipadio app on
smartphones
2. Students do communicative speaking tasks
3. Class feedback using WhatsApp web on IWB
4. Students repeat the task recording themselves
using ipadio app on smartphones
5. Individual feedback and evaluation of
recordings on ipadio web and Edmodo
6. Students add best recordings to e-portfolios of
spoken and written work on WordPress
2. Six Steps to Oral Fluency
1. Work on language - including students
recording themselves using ipadio app on
smartphones
2. Students do communicative speaking tasks
3. Class feedback using WhatsApp web on IWB
4. Students repeat the task recording themselves
using ipadio app on smartphones
5. Individual feedback and evaluation of
recordings on ipadio web and Edmodo
6. Students add best recordings to e-portfolios of
spoken and written work on WordPress
3. 1. Working on language
• Practising pronunciation
• Doing grammar and vocabulary exercises
• Reading aloud
10. Retelling stories
What the students listened to Carla’s re-telling
My feedback:
Hannah stopped just in time
she got out of the car
she looked at the man
Jamie got in the car
they ordered a cup of coffee
across /r/
car
sorry /r/
nearly
bar
8 minutes including recording
these examples read twice
11. Being interviewed
• Not as frequently used as re-telling
Lidia G being interviewed
The ipadio page http://ipad.io/bDoc
19. • No SIM required, so old phones can be
recycled
• No data charges if only WIFI
• Even simple phones CAN be used, but …
How do students record themselves?
20. My review of ipadio on Google Play
1. Generous length for each recording
2. Easy to post (all or) selected recordings to an eportfolio on
WordPress or Blogger
3. Easy to embed manually in Edmodo, for example
4. Teachers can follow students, although this needs improving
5. Teachers (and students) can add comments, although it would be
nice if ‘new lines could be used’
How do students record themselves?
21. What can the teacher do with these recordings?
• Listen to some of them ( 1, or 2 a week?)
– I usually select short ones like pronunciation
and reading aloud or grammar exercises
• Write comments on these using ipadio on
a web page
– using a phone or a tablet or a computer
• Evaluate 1 recording a week selected by
each student (on a computer)
27. Evaluate 1 recording a week
selected by each student
https://britishcouncilamigo.edmodo.com/home#/assignment?mid=339691031&uid=57091315
28. Evaluate 1 recording a week
selected by each student
• 1024
• Listen once to the first minute of your recording and pause when you get to
each of these grammar mistakes and take some notes:
• Hannah stopped just in time
• she got out of the car
• she looked at the man
• Jamie got in the car
• they ordered a cup of coffee
• Here are some pronunciation problems. Listen to my recording and repeat
the grammar mistakes and the pronunciation mistakes. There should be
time to repeat them. Use your mobile to record my version and yours and
then listen and compare them:
• across /r/ car sorry /r/
• Nearly bar
Carla Me
29. Evaluate 1 recording a week
selected by each student
• Your pronunciation was good but in all these problems you made a mistake
with the letter 'r' Listen to me, and then look at the BBC pronunciation pages
about /r/. ‘Bar’ and ‘car’ are not said with an /r/ they are /ba:/ and /ka:/ just a
long /a/ and ‘nearly’ doesn't have an /r/, either
• Listen again to the first minute of your recording and stop at each of these
grammar and pronunciation errors above and say each word correctly.
• Very fluent, but a few grammar problems and one or two pronunciation
problems to solve.
• I've just spent 8 minutes on this. Please make sure that you spend at least
as much time as me trying to learn from your mistakes. If you like you can
make a new recording and post it here.
• Here's the link to /r/ from BBC Learning English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/otherconst6
30. What can students do with their recordings?
• Listen to their own recordings
– Not all students do this, which is a pity
• Re-do at home any recordings they are not happy
with
– Even fewer students do this…
• Read my comments on selected recordings
• Select their best recordings for me to evaluate
• Read my comments on their best recordings
• Add their best recordings to their e-portfolios
31. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
•https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx#share•https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx#share
33. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
https://my.ipadio.com/Settings.aspx?#broadcasts
34. Students add their best
recordings to their e-portfolios
https://tuleka.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/begin-rob-and-jennifer/
35. Student opinions about recording
themselves
» Pre-intermediate:
• 4 people out of 7 mentioned that recording
themselves had been useful.
• 3 people out of 6 said they would like to record
themselves next year
• 4 out of 6 said they would like to have a class library or
use the library next year
» Intermediate:
• 3 out of 4 students mentioned recording themselves
as important
• 3 out of 4 mentioned listening to their recordings
• All 4 students said that a class library or active use of the
library by teachers/students was very important
36. Students recording themselves
• Pre-intermediate
• This year:
• 1635 recordings!
• 3.2 per student per day
• Last year:
• 828 recordings
• 1.6 per student per day
• Intermediate
• This year
• 1121 recordings!
• 2.9 per student per day
• Last year:
• 620 recordings
• 1.5 per student per day
37. Analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2013-2014
• I evaluated 169 recordings made by my students
and, in theory, selected by them as their best
work of the fortnight and spent on average 9.7
minutes on each one.
• Based on the statistics I gathered, a limit of 5
minutes' feedback should generate on average 6
Grammar, and 3 Pronunciation problems, which
is a total of 9 problems, which is surely enough!
• I calculate that listening to just the first minute
three times will probably take five minutes,
particularly if I record the pronunciation myself
instead of providing links to www.howjsay.com .
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014
38. Analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2013-2014
• I tested listening to just the first minute with 6 recordings
and in fact, it took close to 5 minutes and I was able to
give an average of 4/5 grammar points and 5/6
pronunciation points and record my pronunciation of the
pronunciation points and upload the recording to
Edmodo.
• As the average time I spent on feedback this year (2013-
2014) was 9.7 minutes every two weeks, limiting
feedback to 5 minutes next year but doing it every week
will make the total amount of time I spend on feedback
roughly the same, but will make it more digestible as 9
things to work on at a time will be more practical than 18
things at a time!
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014
39. Analysis of my experiment with
evaluating recordings 2014-2015
Taken from my 'End Of Year Comments' in my End of Year Review, 2013 - 2014
40. Download this PowerPoint
• You can find a link to this presentation on
my blog.
• http://onewaytotefl.blogspot.com.es/
• or by reading this
QR code
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• Contact me here:
• Chris.fry@britishcouncil.es
41. Students Recording Themselves
• A similar session was recorded and
archived here
• http://onewaytotefl.blogspot.com.es/2015/
07/students-recording-themselves-in-
class.html
