The voicebooks method
Interactive listening: making listening a learning activity
instead of just a test
Listen... write what you understand... try out a hypothesis... check... ask for some help... listen again... understand!
The new, personalized way for each individual learner to work in the Zone of Proximal Development and improve their listening & decoding skills
Input to intake
A listening strategy that facilitates language acquisition
The Voicebooks listening strategy is based on:
- Bottom-up approach - tell the platform what you understood, and it will help you rebuild the whole sentence word by word
- Short, meaningful and comprehensible inputs, just above one's level of language proficiency, which can be played back even at reduced speed
- Creative construction as a key to language acquisition in long-term memory
Personalization and learner independence
Each person's learning path
Voicebooks offers teachers:
- A flexible tool that can be customised to suit different levels of language proficiency, students' specific interests and different sectoral contexts.
- A system for proposing equally stimulating exercises to students in the same class but with different basic language skills
- A course dedicated to listening to and understanding spoken English, complementing traditional teaching methods
How, where and when you want
An alternative listening model also in the way it is used
The use of Voicebooks makes it possible to:
- Practice listening anywhere, anytime, on any mobile device connected to the network
- Optimise the time normally devoted to listening by completing short tasks, even during short breaks in the day.
- Learning to listen while having fun without the frustration of competing with those at a higher level