Listening in theEnglish Classroom

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Lesson Plans for February 2012

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Personal teaching experience

Done

Assess listening in quizzes and exams

Include listening tasks focused on meaning.

To do

Expose students to a diversity of accents

Better choosing of listening activities

Dedicate more time to listening comprehension

Improve lesson planning

Listening process

Sounds go to the echoic memory to be organized into units with previous knowledge.

Information is processed by short-term memory, compared to stored info. and its meaning extracted.

Meaning construction, that might be sent to the long-term memory.

Listening in the English Classroom

The inventor of Eisenhower Matrix is Dwight David Eisenhower – an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His method helps us prioritize by urgency and importance.

Schema Theory (knowledge representation which facilitates its use in function of past experiences and background).

These tasks are not important but they still need to be done. The question you have to address yourself: Who can do this for you?

Simultaneous, symbiotic and complementary processes

Top-down processing (take up existing knowledge structure to facilitate the assimilation of new data)

Bottom-up processing (triggers past experiences and perceptions)

Class objectives

Tasks that are not urgent nor important should be eliminated so you will not waste time doing them.

Gaining confidence

Conversation follow-up

Language competence

Construct meaning

Comprehension

Decoding L2

Learners' difficulties

These tasks are still important but they're not urgent so you can schedule a time to do them.

Inability to summarize heard information

Inabilities of linking words to context

Little exposure to accents and colloquialisms

Lack of skimming and guessing abilities

Sounds

speed

stress

intonation

rhythm

pronounciation

Learning Strategies

Urgent and Important tasks that need to be done now.

Meaningful listening tasks

Attention to accuracy and analysis in meaning oriented activities

Comprehension activities

Meaning focus activities

Visualizing goals