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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:

  • 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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Course Information

Online
3.00 units
$500.00
Notes: A strong command of English is a prerequisite for this course. (iBT TOEFL:79, IELTS 6.5) Requirement for the Professional Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

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This course applies to these programs

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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Section ID:

190937

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.

Textbooks:

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: 6/27/2025

Schedule:

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Instructor: Andreea Corona

Andreea Corona
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. Department of State and taught teacher education courses. For the past twelve years, she has developed instructional content for the online TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Certificate Program for the University of San Diego, serving both as a Subject Matter Expert and online instructor for courses such as Methods of Teaching ESL, Linguistics for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Engaging in the Foreign/Second Language Classroom. Her primary research interests include higher education writing and teacher education and professional development.
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