Elllo.com is an online English listening laboratory with listening materials of English speakers from all over the world, mainly focusing on practicing listening skills. There are a variety of different topics, such as sports, travel, games, etc. What’s even better is that each audio player will have related listening texts, so you can listen and compare. There are all kinds of topics that are close to life. It is a good place to hear different English accents in different countries. There are even mp3 files and pdf files for download. When you want to search for topics, you can search by country, level and topic.
I will use the SECTIONS model of BATES to evaluate the effectiveness of ELLLo.
The first is S(Students). Elllo provides listening texts on different topics and levels. Every student has individual differences. They can find the listening content suitable for their abilities on this webpage so that they can improve their English ability more efficiently.
The second is E (Ease of use). Teachers and students can access lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. Visitors are not required to fill out any personal information to register before using the website。When you click into any video, you can find the English text corresponding to the audio below. This can help you quickly check the correctness of what you hear. There is also a vocabulary option next to it, which will contain the words and phrases you should remember. After learning, there will be tests for words. Finally, the website provides a simple test based on the article in order to test your understanding of the article.
The third is C (costs). ELLLO offers over 3,000 free listening activities.
As a current or future educator, how do you deal with student’s preference for different technologies?
As a future educator, it is necessary to integrate technology into the classroom reasonably. I should find convenient, suitable technology and effective to help students improve their learning efficiency. Students should become the main body of the classroom and the teacher is only the guide, so as to enhance students’ interest in learning.
Hi XINLU (IRIS) CHEN,
Thanks for sharing about Elllo.com. I found your post very informative and would definitely like to try this resource to enhance my English language skills. Its features seem too interesting, particularly, the aspect of searching for any topic according to levels or countries. The transcript feature is also very useful that allows users to read what they are listening to. Furthermore, it sounds very cost-effective in terms of providing 3,000 free listening activities.
Sincerely,
Swanshi