[ProfessionalDevelopment 2524] Re: Response to Wayne Hall's QuestionSteve Kaufmann steve at thelinguist.comFri Sep 19 11:34:11 EDT 2008
Andrea, My advice is the following. Try to get the audio and the transcript of the lectures, or any other English language material that is of interest to her. Listen over and over, and read the same material to make sure that it is understood. Save key words and phrases that are either difficult to understand, important concepts, useful phrases, or hard to pronounce. She study those, and read them out loud many times to herself. Make sure that she has an MP3 payer with here at all times, listening every free moment or while doing other chores. If there is content that she likes, where she likes the voice, she should listen up to 50 times, just to get the rhythm and flow of the language. I believe she will improve naturally. Only when she is more confident and comfortable should she try to record her own voice and compare, but not until she is well along and has had a lot of exposure. If you are working with her, let her write a few paragraphs at a time related to her studies, no more than 300 words or so. Correct there paragraphs and then ask her to read them out loud to herself 5-10 times, on her own. I hope this helps. Steve -- Steve Kaufmann www.lingq.com 1-604-922-8514 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/professionaldevelopment/attachments/20080919/07e24fd2/attachment.html
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