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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7/12/2023 - 9/13/2023

$500

In-class

La Jolla

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  173223

• CLASS TYPE:

  This is a traditional classroom setting.
  
  All class meetings held in-person according to published location, dates and times. Students may be expected to engage with course content online during the published course dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Teague, Nicola, ESL Instructor at ELI since 1991. Specializes in reading, writing, listening, speaking, presentations and TOEFL preparation.

  After completing her studies in England, Nicola Teague spent four years teaching ESL in Switzerland. She has since taught ESL in San Diego for over twenty years, specializing in designing and delivering interactive communication classes. Teague joined the American Language Institute at SDSU where she taught in both the academic and communicative programs. She taught a range of levels from beginner to advanced in reading, writing, listening, speaking, presentation skills and TOEFL. Not only did she teach in the two primary programs but also in short term programs that included business and teacher training programs. In 1991 Teague moved to the English Language Program at UC San Diego, where she started in the 10-week program, again teaching a range of skills and l...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  TEFL Program: Best Methods in Teaching Listening 2020 1st
  by Nicola Teague
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780100731264

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 7/15/2023.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $475 ($500 if enrolled after 6/21/2023).
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
7/12/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
7/19/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
7/26/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/2/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/9/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/16/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/23/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
8/30/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
9/6/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
9/13/2023	Wed	4:30 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	Room 160, UCSD Division of Extended Studies La Jolla Campus, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla

10/9/2023 - 12/15/2023

$475

Online

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• SECTION ID:

  176825

• 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:
  

  Andrade, Christina, 9 years of ESL teaching experience and ESL Instructor at ELI. Presenter for CATESOL.

  Christina Andrade is a California-born educator who has taught English as a second language around the world. She is a passionate action researcher dedicated to the constant learning that comes from the teaching process. Andrade graduated with highest honors from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2003. Following the completion of her bachelor's in communication, she earned her CELTA teaching certificate from Cambridge and taught in Australia. After years of living and teaching abroad, from Micronesia to Australia, she moved to San Diego to continue her education earning a Master of Education in TESOL, Culture and Literacy from the University of San Diego, where she received the School of Leadership and Education Award of Distinction. Andrade loves to share her...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: 10/11/2023.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $475 ($500 if enrolled after 9/25/2023).
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  10/9/2023 - 12/15/2023
  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.