Developing ESL/EFL Listening Comprehension

This course will cover a number of issues involved in helping learners to develop their listening comprehension of English as a second or foreign language. We'll discuss factors that affect the success or failure of listening comprehension, examine an adaptable lesson template that can be used to develop the listening comprehension of your students, and look at specific listening activities targeted at novice-level, intermediate-level, and advanced-level students. The course will also highlight effective assessment methods, including computerized testing of listening ability.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions.

Patricia Dunkel is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at Georgia State University. She has taught English as second/foreign language for thirty years. She began as a classroom teacher, teaching ESL to Russian emigrees. She went on to obtain a Master's degree in English, and her Ph. D. in Educational Psychology. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in applied linguistics, ranging from Teaching L2 Listening Fluency to Teaching Research and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. She is co-author of a number of teaching/learning textbooks, author of numerous research articles about teaching and assessing ESL/EFL listening comprehension. One of her areas of specialization is computer-adaptive testing of L2 listening comprehension. She is presently retired from Georgia State University and living in Tucson, Arizona.

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Requirements:

Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

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