Teaching and Assessing Listening - Week 10 - Input and Interaction

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 10 of the course Teaching and Assessing Listening for the master's in English teaching at ULACIT term IIICO 2022. In today's class we will talk about features of the spoken input we provide and how these provide opportuntities and challenges for listening instruction.

Today's Goals:

• Analyze two sample listenings to identify organizational features associated with the genre.
• Evaluate the authenticity of a listening text and activity sequence.
• Describe factors that contribute to the difficulty of a listening text or task.

Guiding Question: 

• How can I help my students develop discourse and genre competence?
• What does authenticity mean when it comes to listening texts and tasks?
• What factors contribute to the level of difficulty of a text or task and what strategies can we use to simplify?

Warm Up: Poem Analysis

For our warm up today you will do several activities related to a poem. Click on your assigned group link below and follow the instructions.

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE

Topic 1: Input: Features and Factors

This week's reading analyzes the nature of the input we provide learners in listening instruction. Click on the group link below with your partners and follow the instructions in the document. 

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Topic 2: Listening and Prototypical Knowledge

Let's go into more detail about the topics of discourse, genre, and prototypical knowledge associated with top-down processing.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Topic 3: Authenticity of Texts and Tasks

Now let's talk about authenticity. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE

Topic 4: Difficulty and Simplification

Let's now finish with our final feature of input to consider for this week. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Topic 5: Clarifying Your Listening Construct and Assessment Framework Component

It's time to get started. Click your group link below and follow the instructions given by your teacher in the document step by step. 

• Group 1: CLICK HERE - Peter & Gabriela
• Group 2: CLICK HERE - Arianna, Francisco, & Ignacio
• Group 3: CLICK HERE - Natalia & Stephanie

References: 

Buck, G. (2001). Assessing Listening. Cambridge University Press.

Rost, M. (2017). Teaching and Researching Listening (3rd ed.). Routledge.