Speaking: skills
- ESL Cafe Web Guide: Speaking
- A growing directory of resources
- Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL classroom
- From the Internet TESOL Journal
- Presentations and Public Speaking
- Notes for non-natives on preparation, equipment, delivery, and language use; includes a self-test.
- Don't Hang Up!
- fourteen phone coverstions provided by BBC world service
Speaking: activities
- About.com: ESL: Speaking Lessons
- A nice collection of discussion and debate topics; these are written for teachers (e.g., they list objectives) but can be used by anyone.
- ESL Conversation Questions
- A collection of questions to talk about in the conversation classroom, sorted by topic: animals, crime, entertainment, etc; there's another list at eslpartyland.com
- Karin's ESL PartyLand: Discussion Forums for Students
- Read what other students are saying in online about many topics ('Dating and Relationships,' 'Extreme Sports,' 'Fashion, Fads, and Shopping,' etc); join the discussions or continue in class.
- Topics of Interest
- Our list of discussion and writing resources
Pronunciation: skills
- American Accent Training
- Tips on intonation and liasons as wall as sounds
- ESL Cafe Web Guide: Pronunciation
- A growing directory of resources
- American English Vowels
- Digitized sounds
- English Pronunciation
- A growing collection of online pronunciation lessons (which require the Shockwave plugin) and links to other pronunciation sites
- English Pronunciation
- Hong Kong Polytechnic's online course in reading the phonemic alphabet
- English Pronunciation Test
- An amusing poem illustrating problems of English writing and pronunciation (e.g., 'just compare heart, beard and heard')
- IPA online
- Reproduction of The International Phonetic Alphabet - vowels and consonants
Pronunciation: activities
- English Club: Pronounciation
- Supplementary activities for users of Pronunciation Power software.
- Mouth Manglers
- Digitized exercises for pronunciation; listen and repeat...
- Pronunciation lessons
- Digitized examples of vowels, consonants, and problem areas (-ed endings, stress and intonation, etc)
- Stirling University on-line phonology course
- An on-line course in RP (received pronunciation)
- Webfolio: Pronunciation
- Interactive listening activities testing segmental and suprasegmental contrasts.
Software
- American Speechsounds
- Windows 95 -- accent reduction...includes guides for 30+ native languages
- ELLIS Master Pronunciation
- Windows 3.1 -- accent reduction...includes guides for 28 native languages
- Pronunciation Power
- Mac/Windows -- accent reduction
- Rosetta Stone
- Mac/Windows -- combines listening & speaking with grammar study
- Speech Communication, Inc
- Windows 95/NT -- accent reduction... includes guides for 30+ native languages
- SpeechWorks
- Mac/Windows -- accent reduction... includes sets of vocabulary for professions, and guides for 30+ native languages
