Following up on micro PDs: Listening in MEB

Diane Molly & Sarah Wilson Clayton Campus 9 March 2015

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Outline

1. Introduction 2. Micro PD: A Diagnostic Approach

to Listening 3. The Lessons 4. Conclusion

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A Diagnostic Approach to Listening

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Teaching not Testing

Too often our classrooms are used as arenas in which learners practice, or are tested, on the skills of reading, listening or speaking. Not enough time is spent learning the skill.

Bottom up/Top down Processing

Top Down – Back-ground

knowledge – Situational or

contextual dependent – Activation of long term

knowledge

Bottom Up – Incoming data as

source information – Comprehension

involves decoding • Sounds

• Words

• Clauses

• Sentences

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Standard model for listening lesson

Pre-listening activity Listen for Gist Feedback Listen for Detail Feedback Post-listening

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Criticism of current models

Practice, but fails to teach the skill Testing not teaching No attention to the process Dependent on top-down processing

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Decoding Errors

Discrimination Segmentation Anticipation Reference Unfamiliar Language Processing Speed

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An alternative approach

Listen for the wrong answers Board the answers Replay until students fully decode

• Read from script to slow down if necessary

Diagnose Practice

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The lessons

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Example 1 – Wil Anderson

Does the ad make Wil happy? What does the man with the carrots say? What does Wil say after, “that ad makes me

...”

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Lesson 1

Intonation also carries meaning

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Lesson 2:

Listen for sounds - Do not rely on just context

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Lesson 3:

Use sounds not context to identify new words – guess how to spell them

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Whiteboard

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Example 2 - Matthew O’Reilly

What does O’Reilly say in the opening two sentences?

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Example 3 – Inferencing - Jessi Arrington Why is she speaking at Ted? What does she want the audience to do?

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Did not work!!! Stories worked well The Ted talk was too difficult Students applied proportionality to find the main

idea, this talk is an exception to the rule I assumed that if students can inference whilst

reading they can also inference whilst listening BUT now can try the lesson again, with more

scaffolding or a different text

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Applying PDs

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