http://www.esl-lab.com/
Another favourable website is Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab whose main purpose is to improve EFL/ESL learners’ listening skills with a rich variety of free listening audio materials.
Created by an American educator, Randall Davis, who has had many first-hand experiences as an EFL teacher and sound knowledge about TESOL subjects, the information on this website is very reliable, which is one of the crucial factors in choosing online resources (Kennedy, 2001, Linder, 2004). It is comprised of six listening sections, from basic listening quizzes to academic listening ones, where the users can choose a preferred topic. The best section, in particular, for my target EFL learners would be general listening quizzes because the topics would be potentially engaging and interesting.
Another favourable website is Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab whose main purpose is to improve EFL/ESL learners’ listening skills with a rich variety of free listening audio materials.
Created by an American educator, Randall Davis, who has had many first-hand experiences as an EFL teacher and sound knowledge about TESOL subjects, the information on this website is very reliable, which is one of the crucial factors in choosing online resources (Kennedy, 2001, Linder, 2004). It is comprised of six listening sections, from basic listening quizzes to academic listening ones, where the users can choose a preferred topic. The best section, in particular, for my target EFL learners would be general listening quizzes because the topics would be potentially engaging and interesting.
The topics are graded from easy or medium level to very difficult ones and each topic has pre, during and post-exercises with vocabulary and grammar activities. At the end of the activities, focusing on improving receptive skills, “Online Investigations” comes highly recommended. This activity plays a key role in cultivating their critical thinking because the users are asked to do an assigned task related to the listening topic and think their own opinions about it. Because of its nature, this activity will also be usable for reading / writing classes. For EFL learners who have had few opportunities to think logically, this last activity would be quite helpful.