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Listening for young learnersIn this article I will briefly focus on how I try to develop listening skills with our young learners who are learning English as an additional language. |
Pre-listening activitiesListening skills are hard to develop. Students can do a variety of work before listening to help them understand the listening. |
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A framework for planning a listening skills lessonListening is one of the most challenging skills for our students to develop and yet also one of the most important. |
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Simulated immersionI have often found that learners of all levels feel that there is inadequate time spent on listening in most language courses. |
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Listening: Top down and bottom upIn 'real-life' listening, our students will have to use a combination of the two processes, with more emphasis on 'top-down' or 'bottom-up' listening depending on their reasons for listening. |
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Helping teens to listenThere are obviously many cultural differences between the teenagers we teach all over the world. However, I think that many parents and teachers would agree that the teenage years are, |
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Listening to body languageBody language isn't something that naturally springs to mind when we think about developing our students' listening skills. After all, you can't hear body language. |
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Listening and elementary learnersThis article is about making the listening experience in the classroom more similar to what we do in real life. It's about giving our students some choice in what they listen to and what they take from it. |
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A framework for planning a listening skills lessonListening is one of the most challenging skills for our students to develop and yet also one of the most important. |
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Helping teens to listenThere are obviously many cultural differences between the teenagers we teach all over the world. However, I think that many parents and teachers would agree that the teenage years are, |
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Listening and elementary learnersThis article is about making the listening experience in the classroom more similar to what we do in real life. It's about giving our students some choice in what they listen to and what they take from it. |
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Listening for young learnersIn this article I will briefly focus on how I try to develop listening skills with our young learners who are learning English as an additional language. |
Listening to body languageBody language isn't something that naturally springs to mind when we think about developing our students' listening skills. After all, you can't hear body language. |
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Simulated immersionI have often found that learners of all levels feel that there is inadequate time spent on listening in most language courses. |
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Listening to body languageBody language isn't something that naturally springs to mind when we think about developing our students' listening skills. After all, you can't hear body language. |
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Making listening an authentic experienceIn this article I would like to focus on two key areas of developing our students' listening skills. |
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Listening: Top down and bottom upIn 'real-life' listening, our students will have to use a combination of the two processes, with more emphasis on 'top-down' or 'bottom-up' listening depending on their reasons for listening. |
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Listening and elementary learnersThis article is about making the listening experience in the classroom more similar to what we do in real life. It's about giving our students some choice in what they listen to and what they take from it. |
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barbara.phippen
United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Thank you for some very practical tips. I like your suggestion that the tutor waits...
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vijaya
India
Very good idea. I realised how many metaphors we use in everyday language without being...
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Silvio Pilone
Italy
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