Teaching and Assessing Listening - Week 11 - Designing Instruction 1

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 11 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 consider ways to organize a listening lesson. We will participate in a demo lesson sequence as students and then analyze the texts and tasks from a teacher perspective. Later we will discuss the topic of authenticity and also review ideas for intensive and selective listening tasks.

Today's Goals:

• Participate in a demo listening lesson and anaylze its structure, strengths, and challenges.
• Evaluate the authenticity of a listening text and activity sequence.
• Discuss the differences between intensive and selective listening.

Guiding Questions: 

• How can I integrate listening with other macroskills?
• What does authenticity mean when it comes to listening texts and tasks?
• What are the features of intensive and selective listening tasks?

Topic 1: Demo Lesson Sequence

• Goals: 
• Compare the routines, likes, and dislikes of two people's jobs.
• Interview your partners about their jobs.
• Describe an interesting job.

• Guiding Question: 
• What makes an interesting job?

Warm Up: Thinking about Jobs

Click the group link below and follow the teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Task 1: Listen and Take Notes

Click your personal link below and get ready to listen and take notes.

• Arianna: CLICK HERE
• Francisco: CLICK HERE
• Gabriela: CLICK HERE
• Ignacio: CLICK HERE
• Natalia: CLICK HERE
• Peter: CLICK HERE
• Stephanie: CLICK HERE

Task 2: Analyze and Discuss

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

Task 3: Writing Practice

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

Task 4: What is the Job?

Now listen to your partners read their job descriptions and guess the occupation they are describing. Then discuss these questions.

• What job did you partners describe?
• Do you like this job? Why or why not?
• What additional details about that job can you add to the description?

• Online Variation: CLICK HERE

Topic 2: Lesson Plan Analysis

Go back to your groups to discuss the design and features of the lesson.

• What are your initial thoughts about the lesson plan sequence?

• How was the pre-while-post listening framework integrated in this lesson?

• How would you describe the format of the audios? 

• What strategies did the teacher use during the interviews to make the input more accessible to listeners?

• How were four language macroskills integrated in this lesson?

• How are components of the lesson supported (or not) by the SLA hypotheses we discussed in a previous lesson:

• Input Hypothesis
• Interaction Hypothesis
• Processability Hypothesis
• Metacognition Hypothesis
• Sociocultural Hypothesis
• Active Listening Hypothesis

• What strengths and challenges does this lesson present? What would you do differently?

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
• Analysis Questions: CLICK HERE

Topic 4: Designing Instruction - Intensive and Selective Listening

Let's review some additional content about designing listening instruction. Click the group link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

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References: 

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