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Listening skill is considered the most difficult in teaching and learning the second language in high schools in Viet Nam. Students used to be fed up with the listening lessons with traditional method without using technology in teaching. How to motivate them in learning more effectively. Using technology to teach listening skills is a good one with following reasons. Firstly Computers allow teachers to add multisensory elements, text, sound, pictures, video, and animation, which provide meaningful contexts to facilitate comprehension.Secondly Computers allow learners to hear the available input as many times as needed until they feel they understand it. ThirdlyMultimedia programs can be designed to present material at different difficulty levels with adjustments in speed of delivery according to individual learner needs. Moreover computers allow learners to develop their autonomy to review and practice materials as many times as they wish. Computers can provide immediate, nonjudgmental feedback and additional assistance to learners. They correct learners’ errors without giving them embarrassment or anxiety. Finally using computers in teaching listening skills teachers and students have chance access a huge material on the internet and conect to teachers and students in the world. So I think those CALL programs always provide comprehensible input, particularly in listening.

Pronunciation and speaking have a close relationship each because when students pronunciate unconfidently they will lose confidence in speaking. Moreover in speaking we need both accurecy and fluency so the Using Technology to Teach Speaking and Pronunciation Skills is very necessary. According to Chi-Fen Emily Chen In speaking we use the computer technology to create an environment that encourages communication and provides increased and more varied communicative opportunities for students to utilize their oral skills. Because when you use computers Teachers need to draw on more than one approach and use a variety of instructional tools, such as audiotapes, videos, and multimedia computer technology, to meet different students’ needs in teaching speaking skills. That makes your lessons more interesting and active we have more situations for students practise.Teachers and students can access many websites for learning speaking that they can have more materials for learning.They can communicate with teachers and students on over the world who are also learning English as target language.In pronunciation, most of English class in the rural and mountainous areas are not taught by  native English teachers so teaching pronunciation meet many difficulties so the appling technology in teaching pronunciation can help The learner listens to and imitates the sound and rhythms of the target language without the assistance of explicit instruction. Technologies, such as audiotapes, videos, and computer-based programs and websites, can offer rich resources of native speech as good models. The learner is provided with explicit, structured teaching of speech features utilizing articulatory descriptions and charts of speech apparatus, phonetic alphabet and vowel charts, and a variety of interactive speech analysis software and websites. In brief Using Technology to Teach Speaking and Pronunciation Skills is very necessary in teaching English in Viet nam.

Dear : Jeff Lebow

After two weeks of the course It isn’t long enough for VNU students but most of students can learn much from the proffesor Jeff. We have learnt more about techlonogy and applying internet in teaching and studying English.On the first week many students feel confured about the subject because of some reasons. The first reason is This is the first time we have online studying so students do not how to study in the fisrt days. the second reason is the internet access is in the classroom is not good. Moreover most of VNU students are not good at using computers espeacially me. But after two week with Professor’s help and classmates I can do some assignments but not all. I hope i can do all after one or two weeks later.

Dear Proffesor Jeff.

After one week I have learnt on computer but i can apply very a little beacuse this the first time I have online subject. The internet access sometimes is out of work so that makes me confuse and i can not finish my assignments on time. When i finish the assingments i can not post them in edublog. I dont understand why then when i come to class I ask some of my friends for help and then I can do but not much so I have to practise more and more.

When we learn how to make an audacity that very useful for you when you want to record your voice then you replay. When you replay you can hear your voice and you can know you pronunciate correctly or incorrectly.You can send your voice to your friend or send some audio that your friends need.

Thime  is the first time I have an online lesson so the first day i am confused and i can do very alittle. more the internet access is very bad so i can not get in the webs that the professor ask so the task occurs too slowly and i can do all most nothing 

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