ELD & Technology

Conversation & Pronunciation: Learn English with The Rachel's English Podcast (photograph from the podcast website) Another podcast that would be beneficial for English Learner is the Rachel's English Podcast. It is made by Rachel who is an English as a Second Language Teacher. What better person would you want to have talking to your English Learners about English that an ESL teacher? She also has a great personality that shines through in her episodes that are engaging and exciting for students. Each episode is a great model of how to converse. They all focused on a specific topic that the students can engage in. They are packed full of learning including explaining English vocabulary and phrases based on the conversation topic. There are also some really great topics too that she chooses to converse about including: how to conserve politely in English and setting goals.  Again there are some challenges with this podcast. First it was again difficult to

American English Pronunciation Podcast (image from the podcast website) When you think podcasts you probably don't think about English Learners using them, however, after searching around iTunes, I happened to find some great podcasts. This blog will be focused on a podcast called, American English Pronunciation.  American English Pronunciation has a lot of great features that would make it perfect for a English Learner. One reason is because it teaches the listeners different rules of pronunciation for the English Language.There are actually 200 episodes for the learners to listen to! After reviewing each of the episodes I found all of the different pronunciation topics in each episode to be important and beneficial for English Learners. These are pronunciation errors that my English Learners at school make and would be helpful for them. Some sample episode pronunciation topics are: the difference between short i and short e, intonation in wh question words, and the