Listening in the Classroom: Teaching Students How to Listen

by Reed, Marnie; Jones, Tamara

• ISBN13: 9781945351907
• ISBN10: 194535190X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-11-30
• Publisher: TESOL Press

Summary

Teaching listening means more than just giving students listening activities and checking for understanding—it means teaching them how to listen. Listening in the Classroom takes promising research findings and theory and turns them into practical teaching ideas that help develop listening proficiency.

Author Biography

Marnie Reed is professor of education and affiliated faculty in the Program in Linguistics at Boston University. She is also director of the graduate program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in the College of Education, where she teaches courses in linguistics, second language acquisition, and applied phonology. Tamara Jones has taught in Russia, Korea, England, and Belgium. She is currently the associate director of the English Language Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, USA. Tamara holds a PhD in education from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter 1. Metacognitive Awareness for Listening
Chapter 2. Fostering Word Recognition
Chapter 3. Recognizing Morphological Markers for Improved Listening Ability
Chapter 4. Segmenting Streams of Speech in University Discourse: The Role of Lexical Bundles
Chapter 5. Parsing Streams of Spoken Speech
Chapter 6. Sources of Mishearing: Identifying and Addressing Listening Challenges
Chapter 7. Paying Attention to Weak Forms
Chapter 8. Listening for Thought Groups
Chapter 9. Listening in Interaction: Understanding Projection
Chapter 10. Did You Hear That? Note-Taking in the English for Academic Purposes Classroom
Chapter 11. Bringing Extensive Listening Into the Second Language Classroom
Chapter 12. Learning From Mistakes in Listening
Conclusion
Glossary of Terms