Teaching and Assessing Listening - Week 12 - Designing Instruction 2

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 12 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 continue our exploration of ways to structure a listening lesson. We will start by participating in a demo jigsaw listening lesson that promotes interaction and collaborative listening. Then we will explore the PWP framework in depth and follow it to create a sample lesson sequence. Then we will review some final theory about different types of listening from Rost. 

Today's Goals:

• Participate in a demo jigsaw listening lesson and analyze possible variations for online and face to face lessons.
• Follow the PWP framework to create an outline of an original listening lesson.
• Review important teaching strategies related to intensive, selective, interactive extensive, and autonomous listening.

Guiding Questions: 

• How can I make listening an interactive task?
• How can the PWP framework help me create a cohesive, engaging, and effective listening sequence?
• What are the characteristics of different types of listening?

Topic 1: Jigsaw Listening Demo

In this listening you are going to hear about a vacation a woman took to the country of Palau. Follow your teacher's instructions.

Where is Palau?

• What do you think Palau looks like?
• Why do you think Sally went there?
• What is a remote place in the world that you would like to visit some day?

• CLICK HERE to read a short text about why this place is famous.
• What questions do you have about this natural place?

Listening Tasks

• Instructions: Click your group link below. Your teacher will play the first audio for you and you will work together to complete the table and discuss the questions. Then you will go to breakout rooms to complete the other tasks in your groups.

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Group 2: CLICK HERE
• Group 3: CLICK HERE

Group Sharing

• Instructions: Have a conversation with members of the other groups. 

• What additional details did you learn about Sally's trip?
• What is an amazing natural place that you have visited or would like to visit some day? What do you know about it?

Reflection

• Instructions: Think about the design of a jigsaw listening lesson and discuss these questions:

• What are the benefits of including jigsaw reading/listening tasks in language classes?
• What logistical challenges are involved in carrying out a jigsaw listening lesson online or in person?

• Tips: Here are some of my favorite design tips for jigsaw readings and listenings.

• Choose an interesting text that is related to the theme of the lesson or unit.
• Break the text up in to chunks that are roughly the same length and difficulty.
• Each chunk must stand alone. 
• Include a whole group listening or reading task that provides an introduction to the story or text and models a similar task format that students will have to do in their group listening/reading.
• Give students a graphic organizer to take notes. 
• Predict the challenging or interesting words you want to highlight for students and provide a glossary. You can also give students the task of teaching these words to their partners in the group sharing stage.
• Write out an important quote that may be difficult for students to understand through listening alone. 
• Add notes for clarification if needed. 
• Allow students to control the audio, how they listen to it, what sections they want to repeat etc.
• Include links to media that exemplify aspects of the text for students to react to.
• As with all listenings, provide opportunities for students to express a personal reaction to the content of the text.

Topic 2: Designing a Lesson Sequence

While the PWP sequence for receptive skills lessons is nearly ubiquitous in language classrooms around the world, it is important to think carefully about the purposes of each stage and the options teachers have when designing activities for a listening lesson. Click your group link below and follow the instructions. 

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

Topic 3: Designing Instruction - Listening for Different Purposes

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

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

References: 

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

Wilson, J. (2008). How to Teach Listening. Pearson.