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Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion

September 15, 2008 in EAP, curriculum, methodology, skills, word lists | No comments

These notes are based on a presentation given by Theresa Doğuelli University. The presentation was after sales service from Oxford University Press on the Lecture Ready series of academic English text books.

The aim of the book is strategy training and this was where Teresa began her presentation. The differences between a strategy, skill, plan and tactic were explored. One of the ideas that came out of the discussion was that a strategy is more flexible than a plan - leaving the learner the chioce of how to tackle the task rather than a less flexible and less adaptable plan. Read the rest of this entry »

Oral communication tasks

March 7, 2008 in curriculum, listening, speaking, syllabus | No comments

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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Listening sub skills

February 25, 2008 in listening, skills | No comments

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] Read the rest of this entry »

Listening activity outcomes - a rough guide

February 25, 2008 in listening, skills | No comments

  • 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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