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Sunday 2:15 - 3:05 PM
Cosmos B
'Relevant' Communicative Listening in the High School Classroom
Louie L. Dragut
Taejon Jungang High School 

With large classes of over fifty students composed of multilevel learners in an environment where parents demand that teachers focus on preparing students for the university entrance exam, how can English language conversation teachers motivate and assist students to develop their communicative skills? The presenter will focus on how to motivate learners to engage in communicative listening tasks by providing interesting, comprehensible, relevant and engaging learning material. Recognizing that only reading and listening are perceived by students as the only 'important' skills needed to pass the university entrance exam, conversation teachers can take advantage of such perceptions to prepare highly motivating lessons. To ensure continuous motivation however, the students' perception of the relevance of the learning material is crucial. This presentation will further explore such issues and conclude by introducing various listening techniques and materials that the busy language teacher can quickly adapt and effectively use. 



Louie L. Dragut holds a Master of Education (TESOL) degree
from Deakin University, Australia. He has teaching English in
Korea and Australia for over four years and is presently  working for Taejon Jungang High School as a TOEFL  instructor. He is currently interested in teaching English in  large classes and using technology in the Language classroom.