Language Teacher: Listening Resources

Resources

Listening Resources for LEARNERS - our page

EL Easton: Teaching and Testing listening

ESL: Listening - a list of links to a wide variety of listening resources

ESL Links for Teachers (Listening) - annotated links to lesson materials

About.com: ESL Listening

Pedagogy

Improving ESL Learners' Listening Skills: At the Workplace and Beyond - from the Center for Applied Linguistics

Listening Activities for Effective Top-down Processing Ji Lingzhu

Listening to Lectures in L2; Taking Notes in L1 - Shira Koren, TESL-EJ, Vol 2 No 4

Listening Skills in the FL Classroom - record of on-line discussion by teachers

Strategies for Developing Listening Skills

The Talking Stick: An American Indian Tradition in the ESL Classroom - making the language classroom more democratic, from the Internet TESL Journal

Teaching Listening Skills - approaches and materials

Teaching Reduced Forms: An Aid for Improving Lower-Level Students' Listening Skills - diagnostics, in-class activities, listening journals

Testing Listening - a thorough look into testing

Video in the language classroom - Because it is so close to language reality - containing visual as well as audible cues - video is an excellent medium for use in the language classroom

Teaching Listening Better: Is Listening being taught as well as it could be?

Research

Barriers to Acquiring Listening Strategies for EFL Learners and Their Pedagogical Implications by Yiching Chen

Improving ESL Learners' Listening Skills: At the Workplace and Beyond - ERIC Q & A, Carol Van Duzer

A Review of Research on the Educational Use of English Captioned Materials in Japan - Toshikazu Kikuchi

A Review of Second Language Listening Comprehension Research - Joan Rubin

A systematic review of the role of prior knowledge in unidirectional listening comprehension Macaro E, Vanderplank R, Graham S (2005)

Some teaching materials and lesson plans

Educators' Reference Desk Lesson Plans: Listening - database of lesson materials

Takako's Great Adventure - listening activities with printable worksheets, cloze, multiple choice, and vocab questions attached. Netscape 3.x or higher required along with the latest Shockwave Plug-In.

Two ESL Listening & Speaking Games - games used to teach students to listen more deeply created by: Kimberly Davison-Fujioka of Saitama University, Urawa City, Japan

The "Tuning In" Listening Activity - a lesson created by Jeff Leinaweaver of Shinshu University

What's the Truth? - a guessing game