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      Articles on listening

      Do you know the difference between top down and bottom up approaches? Find the answer, and much more, below.

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      Making listening an authentic experience

      In 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 up

      In '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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      Making listening an authentic experience

      In this article I would like to focus on two key areas of developing our students' listening skills.

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      Pre-listening activities

      Listening skills are hard to develop. Students can do a variety of work before listening to help them understand the listening.

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      Simulated immersion

      I 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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      A framework for planning a listening skills lesson

      Listening is one of the most challenging skills for our students to develop and yet also one of the most important.

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      Pre-listening activities

      Listening skills are hard to develop. Students can do a variety of work before listening to help them understand the listening.

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      Helping teens to listen

      There 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 for young learners

      In 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.