A Broad Guide To Teaching The Skills Of Listening And Speaking

This profoundly and comprehensively explores the requirements and techniques of teaching listening and speaking skills. Additionally, it examines the challenges of teaching these skills and the practical techniques for overcoming them in order to have successful teaching and learning processes. More importantly, this book provides highly engaging multi-tiered assessment tools that empower teachers to activate and enrich students’ listening potentials and trigger their speaking creativity through evaluating their current listening and speaking capabilities, rectifying their points of weaknesses and building on their points of strengths. This book also demonstrates various ways of using technology in order to add more vividness and diversity to teaching and enhancing both listening and speaking skills. In a nutshell, this book is an extremely useful springboard for teaching, acquiring and boosting these core skills owing to its practicality, diversity and rich resources.

Erik Palmer presents an approach to teaching long-neglected but essential language arts that is aligned with the Common Core but focused on preparing K-12 students in all subject areas for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom.

This book offers core guidance for educationalists in designing and implementing a constructive reading environment and process. It provides a plethora of reading models, theories, and techniques that enable educators to have solid knowledge of coping with managing various reading tasks. In addition, this book will enhance educators’ reading teaching abilities by providing them with detailed, multi-levelled guidance in terms of professionally designing, introducing, and assessing reading tasks. Furthermore, it also introduces academic and psychological criteria that consider all the parties of the reading educational process for shortlisting of reading tasks.

A seasoned educator presents eight high-impact instructional practices to close achievement gaps and get all students--whether struggling or excelling--in the academic fast lane.

This guide is a collection of practical ideas for teaching listening skills to learners of a second language. Most are contributed by teachers of English as a Second Language, but the activities may be appropriate for other languages. Each idea is described briefly, with information given about appropriate proficiency level(s), specific aims, class time requirements, preparation time, needed resources, procedures, and caveats and options. The first section focuses on development of cognitive strategies: listening to the main idea; listening for details; and predicting. Section 2 contains activities that demonstrated the interlinked nature of listening with speaking, pronunciation, and vocabulary. The third section provides ideas for teaching aspects of stress, intonation, and register, particularly as they relate to pronunciation. A subsequent section deals with the use of technology in the listening classroom, and the next with listening for academic purposes, especially at the higher education level, where instruction is often provided in a second language. The final section draws together disparate tasks that deal with affective aspects of the listening process, using songs and relaxation techniques. An addendum includes tasks for dealing with problems in the listening classroom. (MSE)

Your essential guide for teaching core competencies that every child needs for developing into a highly engaged, self-motivated learner. The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills: Listening and understanding; Thinking before speaking; Speaking clearly and concisely; Asking thoughtful questions; Giving high-quality answers; Backing up opinions with reasons and evidence; Agreeing thoughtfully; Disagreeing respectfully.

Complete, practical guide to improving the listening skills of children of a range of abilities aged 3-11. >