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Teaching Listening to Low-Level Learners

Adam Gray ABAX for Онара March 10, 2012. Teaching Listening to Low-Level Learners. Some questions:. Can listening be taught? How do we listen? What are some different listening skills? Language problems vs. listening problems What sorts of listening passages?

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Teaching Listening to Low-Level Learners

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  1. Adam Gray ABAX for Онара March 10, 2012 Teaching Listening to Low-Level Learners

  2. Some questions: • Can listening be taught? • How do we listen? • What are some different listening skills? • Language problems vs. listening problems • What sorts of listening passages? • What sorts of tasks/ activities?

  3. Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up • I need a decanter. I needed a cantor • A ma na na wo man • Top-Down processing often compensational

  4. Scripted discourse • Interactional discourse • Service encounters

  5. Grading listening passages. What? • Length of listening passages • Language structure and sentence length • Vocabulary • Speed of delivery • Phonology

  6. What features? • We got you what you said you wanted. • I’m an administrative assistant at Apple Engineering. • See if Tama and Paula are ready to open. • I heard Karen started work at a childcare last week. • I asked him to go to the store for me.

  7. What kind of activities? • Before listening? • During listening? • Post listening?

  8. 1 of 3 similar conversations • Conversation 1: • Waitress: Good afternoon, sir. • Custormer: Good afternoon. • Waitress: Are you ready to order, sir? • Customer: Uh… yes.. er, a cup of coffee. • Waitress: Cream and sugar? • Customer: Just black please. • Waitress: Anything else? • Customer: Yes, a piece of pie, please. • Waitress: What kind of pie would you like? • Customer: What do you have? • Waitress: We have apple, cherry, coconut cream and lemon meringue. • Customer: Mmm. Lemon meringue please. • Waitress: ‘Kay. So that’s a cup of coffee and a piece of pie. • Customer: Yes, thanks. • Waitress: Coming right up. 

  9. Work in groups of two or three. Discuss the following: • How might you prepare students for this listening? • What sort of tasks might you do during the listening? • What sort of post-listening tasks might you do? • What features would you focus on from the listening?

  10. Thank you for coming today! • hugh@abax.co.jp • www.abax.net • Онара (Onara) Ltd. 
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