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Creating a Listening Website Introduce asialistener (real people talking about real issues)

Creating a Listening Website Introduce asialistener.com (real people talking about real issues) Website structure and construction. On-Line ‘Authentic’ Listening: http://www.asialistener.com Advantages:

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Creating a Listening Website Introduce asialistener (real people talking about real issues)

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  1. Creating a Listening Website • Introduce asialistener.com (real people talking about real issues) • Website structure and construction.

  2. On-Line ‘Authentic’ Listening: http://www.asialistener.com Advantages: • Using authentic spoken material is superior to contrived material. Listeners feel interactive ‘tie’ to an authentic spoken text (Field, 2002; Flowerdew & Miller, 2005). • Fosters ‘real-world’ listening (Field, 2007). • Students are more likely to thinking about the speakers cultural and historical background, and the important issues in his / her life. (Thompson & Rubin, 1996). • Students are challenged to think about three main listening strategies: predicting, inferring, selective attention, which may result in higher awareness (Thompson & Rubin, 1996). • Bridges the gap between classroom knowledge and a students desire / capacity to participate in a real world event and consider real world issues as they affect the speaker. Listening is thus more personalized and humanized (Wilkins, 1976). • Can be used for both ‘top down’ (overall comprehension) and bottom up (utterance recognition) (Richards, 2005).

  3. Lesson Tasks – Relating Hong Kong to the Wider World: • Pre-listening discussion relates student knowledge to wider world. • Student Life (student exchanges, favorite study subjects). • Work (truck driver, high school teacher). • Social Issues (undocumented workers, minimum wage). 2. While-listening (bottom-up) tasks. • listening comprehension gap fills. • Sentence completion. 3. While-listening (top-down) tasks. • sequencing tasks. • True / false questions. 4. Post-listening • Inferring vocabulary. • Interview people in similar situations. • Write an essay about similar issue.

  4. References • Carrier, K. A. (2003). Improving high school English language learners’ second language listening through strategy instruction. Bilingual Research Journal 27(3). • Field, J. (2007). Looking outwards, not inwards. ELT Journal, 61(1), 30.  • Flowerdew, J., & Miller, L. (2005). Second language listening: Theory and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press. • Nakatani, Y. (2005). The effects of awareness-raising training on oral communication strategy use. The Modern Language Journal, 89, 76-91. 5. Richards, J (2005). Second thoughts on teaching listening. RELEC Journal, 36 (85). 6. Thompson, I., & Rubin, J. (1996). Can strategy instruction improve listening comprehension? Foreign Language Annals, 29(3). 7. Wilkins, D. (1976). National Syllabuses. Oxford. Oxford University Press.

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