Listen WITHOUT the Teacher!!

Expanding L2 Listening with a Teacher’s Blog

Christie Provenzano & Naomi MikiFukuoka Women’s University

Introduction

Overview

Bulletin Board

Homework Assignments

Extensive Listening

Online Resources

Bulletin Board

Homework assignmentsClass material

Free EFL/ESL material

Un-graded material

Self-created material

Listen again to in-class materialsIn-class Audio

Listen again to in-class materialsList of Audio in Exercise Page

Access free EFL materials

Exam English:

Randall’s: ELLLO:

Real English:

Use non-EFL materialsDevelop activities that make use of related web content

Biomimicry video

Students respond via blog comments

Extensive listening: News for Students

BBC Learning English:

Behind the News: CNN Student News:

Voice of America:

Extensive Listening: Free Audio Books

Books Should Be Free: http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

Librivox.org: http://librivox.org/Open Culture:

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooksPodiobooks.com: http://podiobooks.com/Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/audio

Other ResourcesWord cards

Instructional videos

Dictionaries / Thesauruses

Quizzes / Activities / Chats

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