Activity 1: Helping students improve pronunciation using the Forum module

Aim: Provide oral feedback on students' pronunciation

Moodle modules: Forum

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: **

How often have you listened to students' pronunciation errors, and thought "I wish there was an easy way for them to listen to correct versions and repeat them"? Well, one way Moodle can help out is providing a recording of the correct versions for students to listen to in their own time and as many times as they want. We can collect examples of errors we hear and then record a short commentary with examples of more natural versions.

Here are some examples of the sorts of pronunciation errors students might make that we could correct.

• Individual sounds.

• Elision (where a sound should be left out). For example, the "t" in "football".

• Assimilation (where the first of two adjacent sounds changes to match the second one). For example, "Great Britain" sounds like "Grape Britain".

• Intonation. This is used to express a...