Category Archives: listening

Oral communication tasks

By Miguel | Published: March 7, 2008
Here is a suggested taxonomy for oral communication task types, not in any order of importance. Providing extended answers to oral questions. Asking and answering questions about diagrams or other visual representations of information.
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What is meant by automaticity and automatization?

By Miguel | Published: February 29, 2008
automatic largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously automatize to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]
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Listening sub skills

By Miguel | Published: February 25, 2008
1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues in utterances and spoken text 2. Recognising and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features]
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Listening activity outcomes – a rough guide

By Miguel | Published: February 25, 2008
Listening to types of speech in different authentic contexts Listening to everyday speech and interactions Listening to and identifying single or multiple speakers Listening to both planned and unplanned speech
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The sequence game

By Miguel | Published: February 13, 2008
This milling activity is very simple. Each student has a different sequential series written on a strip of paper. Their task is to find the participant wıith the exactly the same sequence as them self. For this to be a speaking and listening task, monitor the learners carefully to ensure they don’t show their [...]
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