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Transparent Language Education Webinar Series Create a Communicative Language Classroom:
Designing Activities that Teach All 4 Skills Part I: Listening and Speaking
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Agenda
• Teaching Listening and Speaking
• What is it?
• How to do it?
• Classroom
• Anywhere, anytime!
• An Integrated Lesson Plan
• Q&A
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What is listening, anyway?
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• Receiving what the speaker says • Discriminating between sounds • Constructing meaning by understanding
vocabulary and grammar • Interpreting stress and intention
What is listening, anyway?
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The Role of Listening in Curricula
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Designing Listening Tasks
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Designing Listening Tasks
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• Define the purpose/goal
• Communicate the context
Pre-listening
• Real-life
• Authentic
• Level-appropriate
Conceptualize the task • Organize
activities
• Guide students
Implementing the task
In the Classroom
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Listening Tasks: Following Directions
Total Physical Response Follow-Me Tasks
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Listening Tasks: Completing Charts and Graphs
Marking Items on Lists Charts
Audio 1 Audio 2
Who?
When?
Where?
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Listening Tasks: Using Visual Aids
Main Idea Focus on Details
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Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!
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Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!
Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!
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Podcast
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Assignment
List
Chart
Questions
Google Form
Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!
Speaking
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What is speaking, really?
Mechanics
• Pronunciation, grammar, order
Functions
• Interaction, information exchange
Social & cultural rules/norms
• Turn taking, pauses
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Teaching Speaking: Process
• Form-focused
• Content-focused
Input
• Structured
• Communicative
Output • Confirmation of
learning
• Correction
Feedback
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Teaching Speaking: Strategies
Minimal Response
• Useful in several situations, focus on conversation
Script
• Predictable, anticipated exchanges
Language use-in the language
• Clarification, conversation management
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In the Classroom
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Teaching Speaking: In the Classroom
Information Gap: Discuss the Differences
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Teaching Speaking: In the Classroom Jigsaw: Experts
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Prepare a description of the recipe
Prepare a shopping list for a recipe
Prepare to explain how to make the recipe
Team A
Team B
Team C
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Practice Groups Report Teams
Teaching Speaking: Communicative Tasks
Role Play Scaffolding
Modeling
Cards
Open -ended
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Teaching Speaking: Communicative Tasks Discussions (Open-ended)
Has an older sister…
Went to a foreign country…
Plays a sport and an instrument
Can describe their pet…
Can describe what they’re wearing…
Can explain the weather…
Can name 5 foods they like…
Is an only child…
Can name 5 things in their locker…
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Word Cloud Find Someone Who…
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Teaching Speaking: Anywhere, anytime!
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Teaching Speaking: Anywhere, anytime!
Integrated Classroom Lesson Plan: Listening & Speaking
• Video clip demonstrating what they will learn
• Questions about topic/recent events 1. Warm Up
• Create graphic organizer with vocabulary and grammar structures needed for the activity 2. Pre-Activity
• Groups listen to two different audio clips
• Groups identify main idea, details, answer questions 3. Input
• A/B pairs are formed and students present
• Class is given a communicate task 4. Output
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Integrated Classroom Lesson Plan: Listening & Speaking
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