This “The Best…” list was initially a difficult one for me to compile. A number of my previous lists, including the ones on reading and conversation, can also be characterized as “listening.”
I finally decided on the following criteria for sites that would appear on this list. They would need need to:
… be free.
… be accessible to English Language Learners.
… let English Language Learners listen to pretty much anything they would either write or anything they could find on the Internet, OR
… have a wide range of listening options that would be combined with comprehension assessments.
Thanks Larry for collecting high quality sites to help ESL, ELL, EFL teachers and students! These sites will appeal to all language and writing teachers as well!