Upload
evelyn-vaughn
View
217
Download
1
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Paul Robinson
& Aisha Mahmoud Omar Awad
Eltecs 9th January 2011
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
•What are the disadvantages of using published material?
•What’s a live listening?
•Activities.
•A Simple Model.
•Resources and Links.
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
What are the disadvantages of published material?
“A conventional listening comprehension lesson simply adds yet another text to the learners' experience; it does little or nothing to improve the effectiveness of their
listening or to address their shortcomings as listeners”.
“Skills and strategies: towards a new methodology for listening” John Field ELT Journal Volume 52/2 April 1998 © OUP 1998
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Possible DrawbacksInvolve inauthentic tasks
Only usually test comprehension
Use graded language/provide the learner with no exposure to real English
Topics often uninteresting or inappropriate
No development of listening skills
Learners are unable to interact with a recording
No use of features of speech (clarification)
Encourages passive listening
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
The teacher’s voice is a neglected resource in providing listening practice in which the speaker can continuously monitor the listeners’ interest, attention and apparent comprehension, adding any necessary repetitions, reformulations and explanations, and where the listeners can give the speaker signals – so that the listener is not just passive, but is more a successful receiver, and understanding is mutually constructed.
What is a live Listening?
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
What might the advantages be of using an activity like this?
Describe and Draw
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
What are the advantages of this activity? What other topics could be used?
Using a Lexical ApproachTalking about your weekend.
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Talking about a Topic
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Pictaglos
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Instructions: (models/tasks) TPR Activities: Guest Speaker: (invent spoof CV, learners prepare questions)Real Guest Speaker: (have a colleague come in and talk about a
hobby or interest)Anecdotes & Stories:
Other Ideas for Listening Activities
What kind of tasks might you use with these activities? How could you extend them?
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Practising Micro Skills
Replace the word
Wrong Word
Predict a Word
Discrimination Quiz
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
A Model for Live ListeningAs prescribed by Nick Bilbrough. Listening Unplugged!
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec08/pubs02.htm
1) The teacher talks for about a minute about herself. This can be focused around a particular area of language like likes and dislikes, or past experiences. The learners listen. 2) The learners try to remember and orally reconstruct what was said in pairs. 3) They individually prepare to speak about themselves using the same area of language. 4) They tell their partners, who listen and try to remember what is said. 5) Partners report back to the speaker, saying what they have remembered.
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
What advantages might these listening activities have over published material?
More motivating and realistic Activities are more interactive Speaker can monitor reactions and understanding Visual stimulus Minimal use of materials and preparation Promotes more active listening
Listening Beyond the Coursebook
Links & Reading
Listening Unplugged Nick Bilbrough www.hltmag.co.uk/aug09/less02.rtf
http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/alt-techniques/live-listening/
Skills and strategies towards a new methodology for listening. J Field - 1998 eltj.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/2/110.full.pdf
Listening Goodith White OUP 1998
Listening Beyond the Coursebook