


Best Methods in Teaching Listening Skills
LING-40048
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:
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making sense of a stream of sounds
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filtering and contextualizing
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applying discourse and cultural information
Bottom-up skills for listening will be contrasted with top-down skills.
Bottom-up skills:
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knowledge of vocabulary
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grammar
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individual sounds
Top-down skills:
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general knowledge
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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.
Course Information
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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.
Textbooks:
All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 1/9/2026
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Instructor:
Andreea Corona
