Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Core principles and beliefs (60-80 mins)

    • Activating schema . . . and an experiment

    • Top-down versus bottom-up processing . . . and some core principles

    • A task – and some points for discussion

  • 3

    Understanding the stream of speech

    • Accents . . . and embracing plurality

    • Features of connected speech quiz

    • Features of connected speech . . . and a complication!

    • The greenhouse, the garden and the jungle: from saying to hearing

    • A task – and some points for discussion

  • 4

    Pre-listening tasks

    • Right structure, wrong focus

    • Deciding what language to focus on in the pre-listening stages

    • Planning your pre-cycling

    • Pre-cycling . . . and feeding forwards

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion

  • 5

    Listening tasks and how best to deal with them

    • Checking hearing in comprehenstion tasks

    • Exploring and exploiting language from listenings

    • Reconstructing texts

    • Making space for students to speak

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion

  • 6

    Diving into the stream of speech . . . and much more

    • Gapping audioscripts: why, how and what to do with them

    • Other tasks that focus on the stream of speech

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion

  • 7

    Helping students listen . . . beyond the listening lesson

    • A quick survey of attitudes towards pronunciation

    • There's more to pronunciation than ship and sheep!

    • Integrating a more listener-centred approach to pronunciation into your lessons

    • Grammar and beyond

    • The last few odds and ends . . . and some further reading

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion

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