Enhancing second language acquisition with Audacity
As a language educator and IT aficionado, I am constantly searching for tools that I can use in conjunction with language education. Lately I've been using the audio manipulation and conversion tool Audacity to record and edit audio inputs and convert them into a variety of formats, including the ever popular MP3, for a number of uses in courses and course materials preparation.
For example, I use an MP3 player/recorder to record my lectures, which allows me to move around the classroom while recording. I then copy the audio file to the computer and edit it with Audacity so absent students can hear the lesson. To edit a recorded file, simply copy the MP3 file to your computer and open it in Audacity. The file will appear in spectrograph form and can be played from the interface. To delete unwanted segments, select a section and click the delete button. Cutting and pasting audio clip segments is similarly intuitive. Audacity users can even combine different audio clips together.
Teachers can also collect language samples and dialogs from native speakers and use them in the creation of listening and speaking materials.
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