Audio Skills Training
Audio Skills Training
Audacity - a free, cross-platform, open source tool for recording and editing audio.
(If you need to download the program, you can download it here )
Installing and Using Audacity
If Audacity is not installed on your computer, this screencast shows how to install Audacity.
The screencast below shows how to use Audacity.
Edit/Preferences/Audio I/O, select 'mono'.

To do so, click 'File/Export'
Type your name and a 'Track Title' when you see the 'Edit Metadata' window. Then click OK.

Save as type 'mp3 files'.
Then click 'Options' and select 32kbs for quality and then click OK.

Task
Record a 1-2 minute audio introduction.
Begin by saying,
"Hello, this is 'nickname'. My complete name is '......' and my EFL537 ID is vnu#. "
(Example: Hello, this is Jeff. My complete name is Jeffery Alan Lebow and my EFL537 ID is vnu18.)
Then tell me anything you like about yourself, your work, your studies, and/or your family.
When you are finished, edit the audio (if necessary), and export it as an mp3. Please name the file 'vnu#-introduction.mp3'.
Then upload it to the EFL537.com website by clicking 'Create/Audio'.
For Title, enter 'Your Name Introduction'
For Body, write a short descripion of your audio.
Then click 'browse', find the mp3 file you just saved and then submit.

If you finish before others, take a look at some of the resources below.
Additional Support (if needed)
- Documentation and Support
- Tutorials
- Audacity 101 (pdf, version 1.24)
- How to podcast Audacity Tutorial
Readings
- First, You Have to Hear It! ESL Oral Language Practice
- Analyzing Oral Skills in Voice E-Mail and Online Interviews
- Skype and Podcasting: Disruptive Technologies for Language Learning
- LLT's oral learning special issue
Listening Activities
- Manytings.org Listening
- CLA audio based listening exercises online
- Listen to English: E. L. Easton
- Language Activities: a) Listening & Speaking
- Arlyn Freed's ESL/EFL Listening Resources with reviews of web sites (audio and video)
- Interactive Audio-Picture English Lessons
- Adult Learning Activities - California Distance Learning Project
- British Council - Learn English: Songs and Lyrics
Podcasts - audio recordings that are posted online in a way that allow people to subscribe the program and listen to them on their computers or mobile devices
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