As other teachers can attest, a really complete lesson plan is a beautiful thing. By virtue of being a graduate student in Education, I recently had an excuse to spend hours researching the perfect tools for my lesson and writing a plan complete with objectives, time limits, and materials.
The result was better than a I could have hoped for. Students in our "Advanced ESL" class studied word-level stress in English Pronunciation using Praat Language Lab and WordCentral.com.
Praat Language Lab is discussed in an earlier post. WordCentral.com is an online dictionary with audio files of each word. The audio at WordCentral.com is particularly well suited to studying syllable stress as the stress is clearly pronounced.
Here's a link to the text of the lesson plan and my reflections on it.
If you do take the time to look it over, please leave a comment. I'd love to hear your feedback and learn about other tools and strategies that you've used to teach this skill.
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