Teaching and Assessing Listening - Week 14 - Applying Insights from Research

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 14 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 reflect on some of the topics we have covered in the course and articulate our takeaways. We will also work in small groups to present a walkthrough of our listening lesson plan. 

Today's Goals:

• Reflect on your highlights and takeaways from the course. 
• Show how you have applied insights from your research to the design of a listening lesson.

Guiding Questions: 

• What are my takeaways from this course?
• How can research inform my approach to listening instruction?

Warm Up: Guided Course Reflection

This is it! The final class of the term. Let's take a few minutes to participate in this guided writing task to reflect on our experiences.

• Demonstrate your ability to carry out independent research in the field of second language listening pedagogy and assessment by creating an annotated bibliography to summarize the content of 7 to 10 professional articles or book chapters and articulate the findings that are applicable to your research aims.

• Demonstrate your ability to apply knowledge gained from individual research to your teaching context by creating a listening lesson plan and brief justification document.

• Demonstrate your ability to develop a comprehensive, theoretically justified assessment instrument to evaluate students’ listening ability for a specific purpose and context by proposing an exam construct, writing a variety of items and tasks, and developing the required materials.

• 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.

• Read and respond to 7 articles or chapters about a variety of topics related to the nature of listening, listening instruction, and listening assessment.

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

Task 1: Listening Lesson Plan Walkthroughs

Now it's time to share your textbook analysis projects. Follow these steps to share your assignment with your parnters in breakout rooms. 

• What were your research questions or objectives for the annotated bibliography assignment? Why did you choose them?
• What are the most important insights you gained from your research?
• How did you go about the process of designing your listening lesson plan?
• Share your plan and materials with your partners. Explain your design choices by making explicit reference to the insights you incorporated into the plan.
• Feel free to demo one of the activities briefly if you want.

• After the presentation provide some feedback using the envelope framework below.

Peer Feedback Framework

References: 

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