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Effective Listening Strategies with Tactics for Listening
Rob Peacock Oxford University Press Oxford and Suken Seminar for Secondary Teachers 2015
Session Aims
• Challenges of Teaching Listening
• Understanding the Listening Process
• Classroom Activities
• Links to Testing
• Tactics for Listening
• Questions
Today’s Presenter
• Rob Peacock
• From Hereford, England
Hereford
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Today’s Presenter
• Rob Peacock
• From Hereford, England
• 15 years in Japan
• Oxford University Press Teacher Trainer
• 10 years teaching
How not to teach listening
How Not to Teach Listening
• What problems would your students have?
• What can the teacher do to help?
Some common listening
challenges
• Lack of motivation
• Students listen word for word
• New vocabulary
• Students cannot recognize words they know
• Sounds of English hard to recognize
• Students cannot produce language
Stages of listening
1. Pre-listening
2. While-listening
3. Post-listening
Top-down and bottom-up
processing
Bottom-up processes
Understanding the message piece-by-piece from the
speech stream
Top-down processes
Drawing on the listener's own prior knowledge to
help decode the message
Nation, I.S.P., and Newton, J. (2009). Teaching ESL/EFL listening and
speaking. New York and London: Routledge.
Pre-listening
a d v e n t u r e
Half a crossword – student A
p a i n t i n g
g a r d e n i n g
c o l l e c
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t d o o r s
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Half a crossword – student B
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a d v e n t u r e
Half a crossword – student A
p a i n t i n g
g a r d e n i n g
c o l l e c
o u
t
t d o o r s
a
e
h
e
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t
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Half a crossword – student B
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Pre-listening For each photo, write 3 nouns and 3 verbs
Pre-listening Write as many questions as you can.
What… Why…
When… Where…
How… Does/ Is he/she…
Zach
Erica
Which activity does each person enjoy doing now?
Enjoy -
Now -
Past -
like, love, my favorite, I’m happy …(ing)
these days, nowadays, now
when I was younger, a child/kid, used to
Pre-listening
• Set context
• Make predictions
• Create motivation, interest and purpose
• Top-down processes
a? e? f?
a? e? f?
a? b? f?
a? c? e? f?
b? e? f?
a
f
b
c
e
Listening for details
Which phrase gave you the answer?
That’s what I like best about it.
That’s what I like best about it.
The best thing is that...
What I like best is...
What I enjoy most is...
What I love best is...
Zach:
Erica:
Brian:
Evan:
Danielle:
Marcus:
While-listening
• Confirm predictions
• Top-down and bottom-up processes
• Specific listening tasks
• Listening strategies
• From gist to detailed understanding
Post listening: pronunciation
1. He collects comic books.
2. They love playing golf.
3. She enjoys watching videos.
Listen and mark the stressed syllable in
the underlined word.
/
/
/
Post listening: dictation Listen to the conversation. Write
the missing words.
A: What do you do in your free time, Lara?
B: I used to enjoy __________, but now I like _______ and
_________ .
A: Oh, not me! I enjoy collecting things. I collect _________
cards.
B: Do you do anything else?
A: Yes, I really enjoy __________ the internet and listening to
_________ .
Post listening: dictation Listen to the conversation.
Write the missing words.
B: Do you play any sports?
A: I go ________ and _______________ in the winter. How
about you?
B: I like summer sports. I enjoy ___________ and ________ .
Post listening: dictation Listen to the conversation. Write
the missing words.
A: What do you do in your free time, Lara?
B: I used to enjoy __________, but now I like _______ and
_________ .
A: Oh, not me! I enjoy collecting things. I collect _________
cards.
B: Do you do anything else?
A: Yes, I really enjoy __________ the internet and listening to
_________ .
painting cooking gardening
baseball
surfing music
Post listening: dictation Listen to the conversation. Write
the missing words.
B: Do you play any sports?
A: I go ________ and _______________ in the winter. How
about you?
B: I like summer sports. I enjoy ___________ and ________ . swimming
skiing snowboarding
hiking
Work in pairs. Think about your own
hobbies and pastimes. Ask and answer
questions about them with a partner.
Post listening: speaking
Post-listening
• Expand on theme
• From receptive to productive skills
• Pronunciation practice
• Dictation
• Conversation practice
Stages of listening
1. Pre-listening
2. While-listening
3. Post-listening
TOEIC Listening Test Part 1:
Photographs
Pre-listening For each photo, write 3 nouns and 3 verbs
TOEIC Listening Test Part 3:
Conversations
Which activity does each person enjoy doing now?
a? e? f?
a? e? f?
a? b? f?
Tactics for Listening
Teach off the page
Everyday language
High interest topics
Supplement main text
Test preparation
Unit Walkthrough
4 pages per unit
▪ Getting Ready
▪ Listening 1
▪ Listening 2 ▪ Listening 3 ▪ Conversation
Corner
▪ Pronunciation
▪ Dictation
▪ Conversation
TACTICS FOR TESTING
VOCABULARY
INDEX Clearly shows that TFL
helps build students’ vocab.
Teachers can conveniently
assign vocabulary learning
for homework.
Teaching Resources
▪ Unit tests (with MP3 audio tracks)
▪ Midterm and final tests in the style of standardized tests (with MP3 audio
tracks)
▪ Vocabulary and Conversation Worksheets providing unit-preview and
expansion activities
Teacher’s Book with Testing Program & Resource CD-ROM
Student Resources
Audio Download Center
▪ More listening practice
ANY TIME
ANYWHERE
▪ MP3 files available: ▪ Listening 3 activities
▪ Pronunciation & Dictation activities
▪ Tactics for Testing section
Tactics for Listening
Teach off the page
Everyday language
High interest topics
Supplement main text
Test preparation
Some common listening
challenges
• Lack of motivation
• Students listen word for word
• New vocabulary
• Students cannot recognize words they know
• Sounds of English hard to recognize
• Students cannot produce language
Students engaged and motivated
New vocabulary understood
Students focused on tasks
Known vocabulary recognized
Students understand natural English
From receptive to productive skills
Some common listening
successes
