developing listening skills - teacher guides
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Dr Miranda Hamilton
May 25th 8.30am
May 27th 2.30pm
Developing listening skills - teacher guidesNew guides for teachers for A2 Key for Schools and B1 Preliminary for Schools
Teacher guides for developing listening skills
To show how the new teacher guides can be used as training and teaching resource:
Aims for today’s webinar:
• Designed with attention to teaching, learning and assessment
• Insights into the subskills of listening
• Pedagogy with an exam focus
• Practical teaching activities with integrated audio
• Teacher resource pack – linked to the teaching activities in the guide
Welcome to the new guides
Guides for teachers plus resource packs
• Listening as a language skill
• Pedagogy of listening with an exam focus
• Preparing learners for exam success
• With tips and activities with an exam focus
Why are the new guides such a valuable resource now?When face to face professional development is not an easy option
The guides will support you to support your learners
Achieved by making links between:
Insights into the skill of listening
Insights into the skill of listeningThe guide explores the subskills of listening
Prediction is a subskill …
a. you can practise in class but it’s not practical for the exam
or …b. useful in the classroom AND in the exam
Vote now and …
POLL
add comments into the chat box
Insights into the skill of listening
Prepare to listen, prepare to understand• Highlight key words • Discuss the questions and the topic• Anticipate vocabulary
Practice makes perfect• Learners know what to look for in the
questions on exam day … quickly!• Great preparation for the exam
The guide encourages practising prediction skills in class
Insights into the skill of listening
What is bottom up processing?
a. Building meaning from small units of sounds
or … b. Using what the speaker says to make sense of unfamiliar words
Vote now and …
POLL
add comments into the chat box
The guide explores the subskills of listening
Insights into the skill of listeningThe guide cracks the jargon and shows you how to practise:
Bottom up processing • Focus on the small stuff - the units of sounds• Building meaning from the small units of sounds
Top down processing• Looking at the bigger picture• Using what the speaker says to make sense
of unfamiliar words• Working out meaning from context
The guide - insights into listeningBegins by exploring what effective listening involves
• Each subskill of listening
• A definition
• An example from every day life
• Which part of the exam tests which subskill
Subskills – the guide illustrates learner strategies in practiceAchieved with thumbnail sketches of four learners
Following directionsUses knowledge of the worldKey words and context
Diego
Keen sports fanUses knowledge of the topicKey words
Chatting with friendsShe hears a new wordGuesses from context
Anecdote about friendsListens, guesses but waits …Listens for more information
Mahtab Jana
Yinxuan
How many words?• An activity to try after completing a normal listening
• Select a short phrase from the audio to play
• Cue up and play the micro listening
Task• Count the number of words you hear after ‘but …’
Practising bottom up processing in connected speechThe guide provides an activity – weak forms in connected speech
“Yeah with my sister. She loves it but ….
assets.cambridgeenglish.org/schools/audio/preliminary-for-schools-teacher-guide-part-1--1-of-2.mp3
Task• How many words did you hear after ‘but …’
• Type the number of words you heard into the chat box
Let’s check
Practising bottom up processing in connected speechActivity idea – weak forms in connected speech - How many words?
“Yeah with my sister. She loves it but …
assets.cambridgeenglish.org/schools/audio/preliminary-for-schools-teacher-guide-part-1--1-of-2.mp3
“ …I’m not as keen as she is”
Optional follow-up activityActivity - Weak forms in connected speech
“ I’m not as keen as she is”
Listen again and discuss
• Which words are stressed?
• Why are these words stressed?
• Why don’t we hear the other words as clearly?
not
keen
she
I’m
as x 2
is
Write the micro listening phrase on the board
Type your ideas into chat box
assets.cambridgeenglish.org/schools/audio/preliminary-for-schools-teacher-guide-part-1--1-of-2.mp3
“ I’m not as keen as she is”
not
keen
she
I’m
as x 2
is
Practising bottom up processingActivity idea – weak forms in connected speech - How many words?
How does the micro listening activity help learners?
• Raises learner awareness of sounds
• Raises learner awareness of • stressed words• unstressed words• helps learners develop noticing skills
• Helps learners become better listeners
Learner and teacher perspectives
Listening in another language - from the learner perspective
Type into the chat box, now!
What are the challenges for the learner?
Thinking caps on!
The guide explores the challenges of listening for the learner and for the teacher
…I am all ears!
Listening in another language - from the learner perspective
too fasttoo noisy!
language level
can’t see the speaker’s face
pronunciation unfamiliar topic
motivation self-belief
Some of the challenges for the learner
Teaching listening from the teacher perspectivePractical considerations and challenges
Time and space in the syllabus• How much time do you have?
Access to materials and audio• Are your materials compatible for exam
preparation
Feedback and checking understanding• Checking answers and understanding
Design features and support
Design featuresHyperlinks and navigational tools– taking you where you want to go, (and back again)
All about the listening examNo more searching for the Teacher Handbook – it’s all in the guide
Each exam part
Format of each task
Task description
What is being tested
Top tips are in the guide – the DOs and DON’TsFor each stage of a listening lesson
General advice
Before listening tips
After listening tips
While listening tips
Teacher tips exchange
Type ANY top tips into the chat
ALL your ideas are welcome!
a. Check answers as soon as the recording finishes when learners can still remember what they heard
orb. Give learners time after the recording has finished before checking answers in class
Tips for developing listening skillsWhat do you think?
INSERT POLL
Vote now and … add comments into the chat box
a. Check answers as soon as the recording finishes
when learners can still remember what they heard
orb. Wait a moment after the recording has finished
before checking answers.
Allow learners thinking time to reflect, process the
information and decide on their answers
Tips for developing listening skillsThe guide recommends …
Do …
Tips with links to activitiesCheck out the tips in the guide and follow the links to the activities
Make time to discuss the distractors • Discuss why is A correct • Ask why B and C are the wrong answers
Practise strategies to check the question • Highlight key words • Analyse the question and be prepared!
Do …
Hyperlink to Activity 3
Hyperlink to Activities 2 and 3
Activities in the guidesIntegrate teaching and learning with an assessment focus
• One activity for each part of the exam• Part of a task or a complete task + audio• Sample exam papers are not supplied• BUT link to Mock Test Toolkit is given
Step by step approach to teaching listening• to build learner confidence• to develop listening skills• to develop exam strategies for listening
about the task
activity aims
prepare
instructions
What about A2 Key for Schools??
audio links
the answers
B1 Preliminary for Schools
about the task
activity aims
prepare
instructions
answers
tips
What about activity design?
A2 Key for Schools
Pedagogy with an exam focus
Pedagogy with an exam focusStep by step approach to integrating teaching, learning and assessment
Prepare to listen
• Let’s talk all about writing• Now check this out!
• What do you think?
Next steps?
• Take a look at this
You hear an announcement about a story-writing competition
• Topic?
• Number of words?
• Prize or prizes?
Type your ideas into the chat
What was the last thing you wrote?
Pedagogy with an exam focusStep by step approach to integrating teaching and learning with assessment
Almost time to listen
It’s about the competition
You don’t have all the information
Check the question, highlight key words
Play detective
Next steps?
assets.cambridgeenglish.org/schools/audio/preliminary-for-schools-teacher-guide-part-3.mp3
Listen!
Pedagogy with an exam focusTeacher tips
Tools to help you to help your learners
Playing detectives
What type of word fits the gap?
Pedagogy with an exam focusReview the steps of the activity – what did we do?
Exam strategies but in slow motion
Prepare to listen
Review the task
Listen
Listen again and check
Whole class feedback
Think about the topic of this listening – optional follow-up?
Type your ideas into the chat box
Think about the topic of the listening – optional follow-up?
Exploit the topic of the listening for writing
Write a postcard to your best friend about your day walking up the mountain, write about:
• Where you went
• Who you were with
• What the weather was like
• Ask about your friend’s holiday
A2 Key for SchoolsActivity 1: Listening Part 1 – optional follow-up
A2 Key for SchoolsNo learner left behind
Supply the f____ letter of the missing words
Supply the audioscript – read and listen
Supply the f___t and l___t letters of the missing word
Teacher resources
Teacher resourcesLinks to the PDF throughout guide
• Resources for all the activities
• Classroom handouts
• Audioscripts
• Annotated audioscripts
• Answer keys
• Annotated answer keys
• Link to the Mock Test Toolkit
The back page of the guide
Links for the classroom• Teacher resources
• Lesson plans
Links for your professional development
• Webinar recordings
• CUP Research papers
With hyperlinks to:
Teacher guides for developing listening skillsReview
• Teaching and training resource to support the development of listening
• Designed with attention to teaching, learning and assessment
• Insights into the subskills of listening
• Top tips to support the development of listening skills
• Practical teaching activities with integrated audio
• Teacher resource pack – linked to the teaching activities in the guide
Thank you!
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