TESOL Teaching Listening
CONTENTS
LESSON 1.Understanding Listening
Session A Introduction
Session B Recognizing how we listen
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand what listening is
• understand why it is important in language learning
• understand the role of background knowledge and schema
• understand top-down processing and bottom-up processing
Session C Identifying listening skills and strategies
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• identify listening skills
• identify listening strategies
• recognize activities to develop skills and strategies
Session D Looking at listening problems and solutions
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand why listening is difficult
• understand how listening is different from reading
• recognize techniques to help learners with listening problems
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 2.Preparing a Three-staged Listening Lesson
Session A Introduction
Session B Before listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the importance of preparation for listening
• understand and recognize different approaches to pre-listening
• use different techniques and activities for pre-listening
Session C While listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the importance of having tasks while students listen
• recognize different types of tasks
• use different types of tasks and activities
Session D After listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the goals of post-listening activities
• recognize appropriate activities for post-listening
• use extension activities
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 3.Selecting Listening Materials
Session A Introduction
Session B Finding sources of listening input
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• identify possible sources of listening material
• understand different types of listening material
• understand the pros and cons of authentic materials
• select appropriate listening materials
Session C Using different types of listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand appropriate activities for different listening genres
• use various techniques with different listening genres
Session D Using multimedia for listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand multimedia’s benefits for listening
• recognize different ways to use video
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 4.Designing Tasks to Improve Listening
Session A Introduction
Session B Recognizing four modes of listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• recognize different reasons or purposes for listening
• understand different four listening styles
• focus classroom techniques on different ways of listening
Session C Devising effective tasks
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• recognize types of practice tasks for each listening mode
• evaluate these tasks by their characteristics
• encourage awareness of listening skills and strategies
Session D Promoting self-access listening
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the benefits of self-access listening
• help students devise their own listening tasks
• help students’ monitor their own out-of-class listening
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
LESSON 5.Understanding Listening
Session A Introduction
Session B Distinguishing between types of tests
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• recognize the purpose of achievement tests
• recognize the purpose of proficiency tests
• identify features of achievement and proficiency tests
Session C Designing your own tests
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand common factors in test design
• consider the pros and cons of common question types
• design tasks to test skill and strategy development
Session D Self-assessment
When you finish this session, you will be able to:
• understand the benefits of self-assessment
• help students to assess their own listening development
Session E Application
Session F Quiz
TEST
End of Module Test