Course curriculum

  • 1

    Live Lessons

    • Zoom link for live lessons
  • 2

    Lesson 1: Core principles and beliefs

    • Introductory video (5 minutes)

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    • Some housekeeping . . . and a brief overview (5 minutes)

    • What do you currently believe about teaching listening? (10 minutes)

    • Activating schema . . . and an experiment (20 minutes)

    • Top-down versus bottom-up processing . . . and some core principles (30 minutes)

    • A task – and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
  • 3

    Lesson 2: understanding the stream of speech

    • Accents . . . and embracing plurality (20 minutes)

    • Features of connected speech quiz (15 minutes)

    • Features of connected speech . . . and a complication! (30 minutes)

    • The greenhouse, the garden and the jungle: from saying to hearing (10 minutes)

    • A task – and some points for discussion (20 minutes)
  • 4

    Lesson 3: pre-listening tasks

    • Right structure, wrong focus (20 minutes)

    • Deciding what language to focus on in the pre-listening stages (15 minutes)

    • Planning your pre-cycling (10 minutes)

    • Pre-cycling . . . and feeding forwards (20 minutes)

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion (30 minutes)
  • 5

    Lesson 4: listening tasks and how best to deal with them

  • 6

    Lesson 5: diving into the stream of speech . . . and much more

    • Gapping audioscripts: why, how and what to do with them (35 minutes)

    • Other tasks that focus on the stream of speech (25 minutes)

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion (30 minutes)
  • 7

    Lesson 6: helping students listen . . . beyond the listening lesson

    • A quick survey of attitudes towards pronunciation (5 minutes)

    • There's more to pronunciation than ship and sheep! (10 minutes)

    • Integrating a more listener-centred approach to pronunciation into your lessons (20 minutes)

    • Grammar and beyond (25 minutes)

    • The last few odds and ends . . . and some further reading (10 minutes)

    • A task . . . and some points for discussion (20 minutes)

  • 8

    Live lesson videos

    • Week 2

    • Week 3

    • Week 4

  • Free webinar

    Every month we run webinars on teacher development and aspects of language and culture. With this course, you can choose one to participate in for free. See what we have to offer at www.lexicallab.com/webinars/

  • Facebook group and follow-up sessions

    Anyone who does one of our online courses will get access to our closed teacher development facebook group where you can discuss and share you ideas with colleagues. We also run meet-ups there times a year where you can talk to other participants, ask your tutor questions and share post-course experiences.

  • Exclusive offers

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