Teaching and Assessing Listening - Week 6 - Reading Group Workshop

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 6 of the course Teaching and Assessing Listening for the master's in English teaching at ULACIT term IIICO 2022. As you remember, this course has three primary strands: understanding listening comprehension, strategies for teaching listening, frameworks for assessing listening. In today's class we will begin our exploration of the second strand by listening to your reading group workshop presentations about an assigned article.

Today's Goal:

• Present a brief workshop on an assigned reading that synthesizes the author's ideas and explores their classroom implications.

Guiding Question: 

• What does the professional literature say about teaching L2 listening?

Topic 1: Theory in Detail

Let's review a few concepts about listening and language acquisition that we were not able to finish last week.

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Topic 2: Reading Group Workshop

Now it's time for your reading group workshop. Before we participate in your presentations, let's quickly review the learning objective and justification.

• Learning Objective: Demonstrate your ability to read an academic article and accurately identify and synthesize key concepts presented in the text in order to lead a group discussion exploring the implications of the theory to your teaching practice.

• Justification: A key skill of a professional educator is the ability to draw upon relevant theory from academic literature from the field in order to inform his or her teaching practice. Although academic texts can be challenging, it is essential to develop the ability to read, interpret, and synthesize the core ideas of academic articles when pursuing a degree in a graduate level program.

• Group 1: Natalia and Ariana
• Teacher, the tape is too fast! Extensive Listening in ELT
• Willy Renandya & Thomas Farrell

• Group 2: Francisco and Gabriela
• The Changing Face of Listening
• John Field

• Group 3: Stephanie, Ignacio, & Peter
• Teaching L2 Listening: In and Outside the Classroom
• Anna Chang

Peer Feedback Framework

References:

Chang, A. (2016). Teaching L2 listening: in and outside the classroom. In Editors W. Renandya & H.P. Widodo (Eds.), English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice. Springer.

Field, J. (2002). The changing face of listening. In Editors J.C. Richards & W. Renandya (Eds.), Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge University Press.

Renandya, W., & Farrell, T. (2010). 'Teacher, the tape is too fast!' Extensive Listening in ELT. ELT Journal, 65(1), 52-59. DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccq015

Rost, M. (2026). Teaching and Researching Listening (3rd ed.). Routledge.