teaching listening

[crickets]

anyone have any ideas or suggestions on teaching listening to an advanced student?

[zeichen]

Ted Talks

Kaoroke

Dictation exercises

[samsensam]

didnt they cover this when you qualified to be a teacher...?

class dictation, peer dictation, listening comprehension, gap fill, role play... the principles are the same regardless of the level of english, you just have to grade the language appropriately.

[otherstuff1957]

Voa Special English. Download the audio file, make a list of comprehension questions and you're set to go. Even advanced students struggle to understand spoken English without visual cues.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/programindex.html

[Rhys]

Debate activities.. it about listening then breaking down the arguments, and responding... It forces the student to listen critically.

[lostinisaan]

Please check the CEFR website, let your student make a test to see if he/she's really advanced and then go to certain listening exercises.

Example of B 2 level:

http://www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_listening_education.htm

[Jimdandy]

If your lesson plan includes practice with the fundamental skills listed below on a ongoing basis the listening skills will develop. When you look at the first two items, Vocabulary in context and Pronoun reference, those are grammar points, so If they do not understand basic grammar skills it will be extremely difficult for then to develop good listening skills.

Vocabulary in context

Pronoun reference

Main idea

Detailed information

Classification

Sequence of events

[Rhys]

Try... Randall's Cyber listening Lab.... sorry forgot the link.. there were over 300 exercises and easy to advanced listening lesson..it is a great self study opportunity.

More for free..

The university students like it....for it is easy and well explained..

Edited May 16, 2015 by Rhys