Oral homework

For a long time, I simply didn’t give homework to oral English classes because most traditional homework assignments focus on reading and writing and I want my students to develop their speaking and listening skills more than anything else.

If your school has a library or computer lab where students can complete VoiceThread activities, that would be great to point out, especially for students who don’t have access at home. If your students aren’t getting enough practice speaking English in class, try moving online and assign speaking homework using VoiceThread.

I had no idea what speaking homework would look like until I found VoiceThread, which I really can’t say enough good things about. VoiceThread markets itself as a “collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos” which, as I mentioned in TESOL Connections, allows students to submit both written and oral comments.

If your students aren’t getting enough practice speaking English in class, try moving online and assign speaking homework using VoiceThread. Do you know other websites that are good for speaking homework?