Teaching Listening to Lower Level Learners

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Listening successfully requires making use of both top-down and bottom-up processing skills. Unfortunately, Listening activities are often mere practice sessions where students are given the opportunity to listen to graded English but not actually taught. Bottom-up processing, that is the use of knowledge about the language system, is vital for decoding. Here phonology is often ignored. Breaking up 'listening' into its various sub-skills, for example, understanding gist, making inferences using background and situational knowledge, understanding elided consonants and so on, allows for the presentation and subsequent measurement of meaningful achievement gains. Presented is an approach that focuses on these skills, and gives students an opportunity to increase overall proficiency through a series of achievement gains based on an understanding of these sub-skills. The methodology for this approach is not all that far divorced from traditional communicative pedagogy, the difference is in the 'what' of the curriculum, not the 'how'.

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