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Professional Readings: Listening

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• Developing Classroom Speaking Activities: From Theory to Practice

  Article by Jack Richards written for classroom teachers (PDF).

• Global English and the Teaching of Pronunciation

  Jennifer Jenkin's article identifies which pronunciation features are crucial for mutual understanding when a non-native speaker of English talks to another non-native speaker and which features are not at all important (British Council).

• Listening In Language Learning

  Nunan argues for a higher profile for listening, the Cinderella skill in second language learning.

• Second Thoughts on Teaching Listening

  2005 article by Jack Richards.

• Assessing Interactive Oral Skills in EFL Contexts

  Jason Beale write about the principles underlying assessment of oral language skills.

• Assessing Listening and Speaking Skills.

  Mead and Rubin discuss factors to be considered when assessing oral language (ERIC Digest).

• Grammar Dictation: The Dictogloss Procedure as a Means to Explore and Shift Learners' Hypotheses about Language

  Ruth Wajnryb explains dictogloss.

• A Guide to Learning English: Helping ESOL Students Understand What You Say

  Clearly written advice from Paul Shoebottom at Frankfurt International School.

• The Importance of Oral Language in the School Curriculum

  Gillian Bertram discusses the role of the teacher in facilitating growth in students' oral language.

• Listen Hear

  Times Educational Supplement article that includes 'ten ways to help your pupils learn to listen'.

• National Education Monitoring Project

  2006 reports - Writing, Listening and Viewing, Health & Physical Education.

• Oral Language

  Discusses the literacy challenges for English language learners and identifies effective teaching strategies for scaffolding oral language (The Education Alliance, Brown University).

• Rating Instructional Conversations: A Guide

  From Rueda, Goldenberg and Gallimore (NCELA).

• Rhymes, Stories and Songs in the ESL Classroom

  This article argues the case for including traditional songs, stories and nursery rhymes in the ESOL classroom (The Internet TESL Journal).

• Storytelling in Young Learner Classes

  Why and how (British Council).

• We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom

  The role of co-operative learning in facilitating language acquisition (CAL Digest).