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
