TeachingEnglish: How to teach listening

How will the course help you?

By the end of How to teach listening, you'll be able to 

• identify different elements of teaching reading
• use strategies and practical activities that develop reading skills
• identify effective strategies that will help your learners develop reading skills. 

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What are the self-study modules in How to teach listening?

Module 1 – Understanding listening skills

The aim of this module is to help you teach listening skills as well as how to identify learners' specific needs and the practical challenges they face with listening in English. You will identify differences between real-life and in-class listening, evaluate problems associated with teaching listening and generate solutions as well as design and plan classroom listening activities.

Module 2 – Engaging with listening – active listening

The aim of this module is to consider the importance of active listening for both teachers and learners. The module looks at what active listening is and what interferes with it and highlights features that encourage active listening skills. You will explore active listening skills and strategies, apply strategies to improve active listening skills as well as evaluate how acquiring active listening skills could be beneficial to learners.

Module 3 – Engaging with listening – strategies

The aim of this module is to provide an introduction to listening strategies. The module defines what people listen to and why, and what can help your learners – and you, as a teacher – to listen effectively. You will list the differences between spoken and written forms of language, identify examples of transactional and interactional listening as well as analyse and plan classroom activities that promote strategies to increase effective listening skills.

Course reviews

What have other teachers said about how How to teach listening helped them?

"I know a lot of things I haven't heard before. Extensive listening and listening for gist most closely relate to top-down processing."

Course participant, Kazakhstan 

"i have tried the therapist game with the students to improve their active listening, they actually it enjoyed it and was able to do well in the listening task given to them."

Course participant, United Arab Emirates 

"I prepared a listening activity for my 6th-grade secondary students and this time I applied the advice to give them the context and I obtained better results."

Course participant, Bolivia

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