How to Teach Listening to ESL Students | Advanced English Listening

Описание: If you want to find out how to teach listening to ESL/EFL students, you’re in the right place. Check out these tips and tricks for teaching ESL listening, how to plan an ESL lesson, along with lots of game and activity ideas.

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Here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching listening to higher-level or advanced students.

So my first thing is to use extensive listening. Studies have shown that extensive listening and extensive reading really can help students with vocabulary acquisition, grammatical structures and just their general English ability. Extensive reading or extensive listening in this case is listening to something kind of just like slightly below the level that you're at. The keys are that students are just listening to something that they're interested in for fun and that they don't have to keep getting out their dictionary every like two seconds because they don't understand something.

Some of the best sources are podcasts. There are a million different podcasts at different levels and people with different speaking speeds on a different, on a variety of topics. Another one is movies and TV shows, however, I always recommend to my students that they don't use the subtitles in their first language. The next thing is songs. Not just like listening passively, but actually like reading the lyrics, focusing on the lyrics, thinking about them, maybe trying to guess the lyrics, and that kind of thing. And then another source if students are not quite at those most advanced levels, maybe they're at a more intermediate level , you can go to Breaking News English and they have listening passages.

Okay, so when you're teaching higher-level English Learners, I recommend always using a listening lesson plan. So just because they're higher-level learners doesn't mean you don't need to plan a lesson. Here's just a very simple, quick overview of how to plan an ESL listening lesson. Kind of generate some interest in the topic, setting the context. Maybe students can talk to their partner about something, you can show a picture that kind of leads into it, show a headline and get students to make a make a prediction about what they'll hear. And then give students a very simple task. Like a true false, something like that and then play the listening passage once and then students have to answer that very simple question. And then give students some more difficult comprehension questions. And then do a follow up, answering some questions that kind of relate the passage to their life, giving opinions about something, focusing on some grammar or vocabulary out of that, something like that.

All right, the third way to help students with higher level listening skills is to do some student- centered conversation activities. I know conversation activities imply speaking, however they are speaking to somebody. So that person is focusing on their listening skills, while the other person's focusing on their speaking skills and then of course, conversation is a two-way street so it goes back and forth and back and forth.

All right, the next idea I have for teaching higher level Learners is to teach them exam English. It's often the case that these higher level students are maybe going to study like say in an American University, or they are applying at a company where they need to have a certain English proficiency score, like for example, the IELTS or the TOEFL or the TOEIC. Teaching listening skills related to these exams can be very useful for these students.

The last tip I have for teaching higher level listening is to focus on vocabulary acquisition. It's often the case that students kind of get to a high level, maybe like close to fluent or like near fluent or kind of high intermediate and what is really going to push those students into the higher levels is learning more vocabulary. So push students to learn vocabulary related to what they need to know.

Timestamp Advanced English listening video:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Use extensive listening
1:43 Songs
2:11 Listening lesson plan
3:17 Student centered conversation activities
3:48 Exam English
4:24 Focus on vocabulary acquisition
5:02 Outro