Teaching Listening Skills (macro-, micro-, language)
In this course, we provide examples of tasks you can use to teach macro listening skills, micro listening skills, and language structures.
In this course, we provide examples of tasks you can use to teach macro listening skills, micro listening skills, and language structures. Each type of activity comes with a downloadable handout you can use to create your own listening activities. We recommend you first complete the course "Teaching English with Online Videos". That will give you a good overview of why we are recommending using these tasks as the basis for your listening lessons. It also explains our preference for video as the listening text, and therefore why we frequently mention 'video' rather than 'audio file'.
A wide range of activities for teachers, especially accessible I would imagine in the early stages of one's career, especially as listening is rather a forgo...
Read MoreA wide range of activities for teachers, especially accessible I would imagine in the early stages of one's career, especially as listening is rather a forgotten skill, often relegated to the background of language learning and teaching. If I have one minor criticism on a first reading, it is that this course seems to be weighted towards teacher-centred rather than learner-centred activities, which forces the teacher to spend quite a lot of preparation time for a fairly brief classroom experience, which may be one of the reasons why listening is rather neglected in the ELT world.
Read LessI appreciate that this course included specific activity suggestions with resources provided. It might be even more helpful if each activity included a spec...
Read MoreI appreciate that this course included specific activity suggestions with resources provided. It might be even more helpful if each activity included a specific example demonstrated for each activity, so it's very clearly modeled how these suggestions can be run in class.
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