Collablogatorium. Daily Assessment Of Student Learning Teaching Tips. Listening for learning | Carol Goodey. This post is in response to Nathan Hall’s invitation to take part in an ELT Research Blog Carnival. The first topic is ‘listening’. In a recent post, the Secret DOS asks, along with many other questions, if there is any more to language learning than memorisation, regurgitation and evaluation. I’d say there is. What that more is, though, may depend on who’s doing the learning and on what and why they want to learn. An essential element, however, must be that learners develop an understanding of how the language is used in different contexts and for different purposes by reading and listening to what and how things are written or said in that language.
But how do we cover all the many possible contexts learners will want to participate in? We can, however, help learners to apply what they do with us to what they want or need to be able to do in other areas of their lives. Jenny Kemp (2010) reports on a study of listening logs kept by students as part of a listening skills module. It doesn't matter. Rob Dean's Blog: A Journey Through ELT A-Z. After a rather prolonged break, the journey through ELT A-Z is back… The first three instalments are still residing under ‘Teacher Training’ on the community forum; this new location continues the thread.
As it has been such a long time since the last instalment, here are a couple of quick reminders: •1) My A-Z of areas is not meant to be definitive or exhaustive. Please feel free each month to add you own.•2) I will comment only briefly on each of my areas. Please expand on them or discuss them as you wish! D is for… Drilling Deeply unfashionable or sadly underrated? Dictation Another blast from the past – or is it? •- Intensive practice of listening, spelling, punctuation, word boundaries -and handwriting / letter formation in some contexts.•- Student to student dictation adds reading and pronunciation practice to the mix. •- Certain forms of dictation ARE ‘real world’ activities – giving and receiving messages over the phone being a common everyday activity.
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