Best Methods in Teaching Listening Skills

Become familiar with the different types of listening needs and tasks, as well as the best techniques and methods for helping your ESL and EFL students become more skillful listeners in English.

Essentials of successful listening comprehension:

• making sense of a stream of sounds

• filtering and contextualizing

• applying discourse and cultural information

Bottom-up skills for listening will be contrasted with top-down skills.

Bottom-up skills:

• knowledge of vocabulary

• grammar

• individual sounds

Top-down skills:

• general knowledge

• situational awareness

• schema

By the end of the course, you will know how to integrate the listening skill and practice into reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary instruction. 
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Note: A strong command of English is a prerequisite for this course. (iBT TOEFL:80, TOEIC:760) 

This is a required course for the Professional Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate program.

Course Number: LING-40048
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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4/10/2023 - 6/16/2023

$500

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• SECTION ID:

  172952

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Corona, Andreea, Linguistics Lecturer at UCSB; English Language Fellow in Turkey 2013-2014; online TESOL Program Subject Matter Expert and instructional developer

  Andreea Corona currently serves as a Continuing Lecturer in the Linguistics Department in the English for Multilingual Students (EMS) Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches multiple levels of academic reading and writing courses for international undergraduate and graduate students. In her fifteen years of teaching thus far, she has taught a variety of academic courses in intensive language programs such as at the University of San Diego, where she also received her Master’s in Education in TESOL, Literacy, and Culture, as well as several composition courses at community colleges throughout the San Diego area. She has also taught internationally in Italy, Mexico, Romania, and Turkey, where she served as an English Language Fellow for the U.S. Dep...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Tips for Teaching Listening: A Practical Approach 1st
  by Jack C Richards, Anne Burns
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780132314831

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 4/13/2023.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $475 ($500 if enrolled after 3/27/2023).
  

• NOTE:

  This is an Online Asynchronous course. All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates. You will have access to your course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed, if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  4/10/2023 - 6/16/2023
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.