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A few months ago I discovered this fantastic app thanks to the amazing @joedale. However, it is only this week I am finding the time to explore its potential for use with languages.
It's called Opinion. Have you hear of it? It was designed to create podcasts. However, it is just perfect for languages teachers! You can so easily cut pieces of audio and move them around (for students to easily create dialogues for instance).
The best use I have found for it has to do with preparing students for speaking tasks (or even just getting them talking in response to specific questions). So, today I recorded myself asking some questions in Spanish and French to the students (in preparation for their orals). I sent them the audio file (with all questions included). Now they can then grab that audio file and cut where each question ends to add their own answers to my questions!
And then I thought we can actually use it for oral feedback too! We would just cut where students need some (oral) feedback and record ourselves giving the correct pronunciation or sentence structure and voilà! So exciting!
I find the app incredibly easy to use so I am confident anyone can figure out how to use it without specific explanations here ;)
I hope you will find these ideas as useful (and exciting) as I do! And please don't hesitate to add more in the comments below.
It's called Opinion. Have you hear of it? It was designed to create podcasts. However, it is just perfect for languages teachers! You can so easily cut pieces of audio and move them around (for students to easily create dialogues for instance).
The best use I have found for it has to do with preparing students for speaking tasks (or even just getting them talking in response to specific questions). So, today I recorded myself asking some questions in Spanish and French to the students (in preparation for their orals). I sent them the audio file (with all questions included). Now they can then grab that audio file and cut where each question ends to add their own answers to my questions!
And then I thought we can actually use it for oral feedback too! We would just cut where students need some (oral) feedback and record ourselves giving the correct pronunciation or sentence structure and voilà! So exciting!
I find the app incredibly easy to use so I am confident anyone can figure out how to use it without specific explanations here ;)
I hope you will find these ideas as useful (and exciting) as I do! And please don't hesitate to add more in the comments below.