Saturday 5:45 - 6:35 PM
TTI 303/4
Four Keys To Active Listening
Marc Helgeson
Cambridge University Press
What makes learners active, effective listeners? Practice, of
course. But they need more. Our students need to learn
HOW to listen. In this practical session, we'll consider four
key concepts for listening improvement: training with different listening
types, awareness of purpose, experience with a variety of task types, the
ability to activate previously learned information. Using examples
from the popular Active
Listening series, the author looks at how to teach these concepts in
the classroom and make students able to use them independently.
We'll also suggest ways to integrate listening and speaking, make use of
"listening for enjoyment" sources such as stories and songs, and consider
the roles of top-down and bottom-up processing. Participants
will be encouraged to
share their experiences both with the books and with learning to listen
in a foreign language.
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