Antimoon and many successful learners encourage the use of authentic materials (both written and spoken) for input, and some, like Steve K, encourage usings recordings along with a transcript. But it is often hard to get authentic material that has both an audio and written component.
Since getting interesting written material is relatively easy, has anyone tried--or heard of others who have tried--doing their own recordings? Granted, one's accent may not be quite native-like, but if one can speak clearly and fairly accurately, is there any problem with listening to one's own recordings? Actors do this to memorize lines, and language learners do this to test their pronunciation, but I've never seen anything written about using one's own recording of authentic material as a source of input.
Since getting interesting written material is relatively easy, has anyone tried--or heard of others who have tried--doing their own recordings? Granted, one's accent may not be quite native-like, but if one can speak clearly and fairly accurately, is there any problem with listening to one's own recordings? Actors do this to memorize lines, and language learners do this to test their pronunciation, but I've never seen anything written about using one's own recording of authentic material as a source of input.