Teacher Development Interactive: Listening, Student Access Card

Key features: Interactive content includes video-lectures, animated presentations as well as online discussions create a stimulating learning environment Task-based learning activities and interactive reading passages reinforce the acquisition of key principles while optimising the learning experience Classroom video segments provide practical demonstrations of key principles and make the content come to life and An internationally recognised First TEFL Certificate from highly acclaimed Hunter College, City University of New York will be awarded upon successfully passing any four modules.

Table of Contents:
Lesson  1  Understanding Listening   Session A              Introduction Session B              Recognizing how we listen When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand what listening is ·         understand why it is important in language learning ·         understand the role of background knowledge and schema ·         understand top-down processing and bottom-up processing Session C              Identifying listening skills and strategies When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         identify listening skills ·         identify listening strategies ·         recognize activities to develop skills and strategies Session D              Looking at problems and solutions When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand why listening is difficult ·         understand how listening is different from reading ·         recognize techniques to help learners with listening problems Session E              Application      Session F              Quiz     Lesson  2  Preparing a Three-staged Listening Lesson   Session A              Introduction Session B              Before listening When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·      understand the importance of preparation for listening ·      understand and recognize different approaches to pre-listening ·      use different techniques and activities for pre-listening Session C             While listening   When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·      understand the importance of having tasks while students listen ·      recognize different types of tasks ·       use different types of tasks and activities Session D             After listening When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·   understand the goals of post-listening activities ·   recognize appropriate activities for post-listening ·   use extension activities Session E:             Application Session F              Quiz     Lesson 3 Selecting Listening Materials   Session A              Introduction Session B              Finding sources of listening input When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         identify possible sources of listening material ·         understand different types of listening material ·         understand the pros and cons of authentic materials ·         select appropriate listening materials Session C              Using different types of listening When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand appropriate activities for different listening genres ·         use various techniques with different listening genres Session D              Using multimedia for listening When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand multimedia’s benefits for listening ·         recognize different ways to use video [reorder; add some general techniques Session E:             Application Session F              Quiz     Lesson 4  Designing Tasks to Improve Listening   Session A              Introduction Session B              Recognizing four modes of listening When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         recognize different reasons or purposes for listening ·         understand  different four listening styles ·         focus classroom techniques on different ways of listening Session C              Devising effective tasks  When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         recognize types of practice tasks for each  listening mode ·         evaluate these tasks by their characteristics ·         encourage awareness of listening  skills and strategies Session D              Promoting self-access listening  When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand the benefits of self-access listening ·         help students devise their own listening tasks ·         help students’ monitor their own out-of-class listening Session E:             Application Session F              Quiz     Lesson 5  Assessing Listening   Session A              Introduction Session B:             Distinguishing between types of tests When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         recognize the purpose of achievement tests ·         recognize the purpose of proficiency tests ·         identify features of achievement and proficiency tests Session C:             Designing your own tests When you finish this session, you will be able to:   ·         understand common factors in test design ·         consider the pros and cons of common question types ·         design tasks to test skill and strategy development Session D:              Self-assessment When you finish this session, you will be able to: ·         understand the benefits of self-assessment ·         help students to assess their own listening development Session E:             Application Session F              Quiz