BOOKS for teaching Listening for Students in University

meikoi · 2017-02-01T16:13:34+01:00

Discover effective textbooks for teaching listening skills to beginner university students in Vietnam. Share insights and improve your teaching strategy.

meikoi Member

Member since 01 February 2017

meikoiMember01 February 2017 14:13:34

Good evening everyone,

I am teaching listening for university students and I am getting mad at them as they do not get any improvement. I have been trying using many materials and textbooks such as Tactics for Listening, English for Life but the students are just in under beginners. I really want to help them, any suggestions for textbooks that would enhance their study?

million thanks

Ah by the way, I am Meikoi from Australia, I am half Japanese and Laos. Nice to meet you

Bazza139 ViP

Member since 04 January 2016

Bazza139ViP01 February 2017 14:56:08

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A picture is worth a thousand words.聽聽A.K.A. Visual Aids.

Go Ogle is your friend.聽聽Just type in Teaching Aids,
Languages for Beginners, Visual aids for ESL, (etc.)

..or give them 'Homework' watching cartoons or movies
with subtitles..?聽聽Skype with International students, or
use posters for young children, THEN (try to) tie it all
together in the classroom.聽聽Use humour, outside
excursions to maintain interest = attention = memory.

You are on a learning curve too...聽聽聽

Google has all the goodies.聽聽Go Ogle.聽聽聽

Fred Indonesia Expert

Member since 02 August 2009

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

FredIndonesia Expert01 February 2017 23:25:51

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Keeping it interesting is the key.
You can read a hundred books and learn nothing, but basic work building up to difficult over time will get them moving.

Try introducing a laugh.

tsshapiro Active member

Member since 30 May 2013

tsshapiroActive member07 February 2017 09:32:55

You're going about this the wrong way. To improve students listening skills you need to be teaching them pronunciation. If they can't speak it, they'll never hear it.

Make sure you're teaching reductions, elisions, and linking sounds. This will greatly improve your students listening skills.

ralphnhatrang Serial 暗网禁区

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ralphnhatrangSerial 暗网禁区07 February 2017 10:37:42

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Fred #3 -聽 thanks for the link. Hilarious.

Bazza139 ViP

Member since 04 January 2016

Bazza139ViP07 February 2017 10:58:37

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@Ralph

" Fred #3 -聽 thanks for the link. Hilarious."

Don't be fooled.聽聽That was actually Fred doing
(yet another)聽 John Cleese impersonation.

..hence the necessity of subtitles...聽聽聽

Fred Indonesia Expert

Member since 02 August 2009

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

FredIndonesia Expert07 February 2017 11:52:17

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I am not John Cleese, I'm just a very naughty boy.

And now for something completely on topic......

Teaching listening and speaking to together very nicely but are very remote from reading and writing skills in a million ways.
The latter tends to send kids to sleep, especially when it comes to the finer points of irregular verbs, but teaching speaking and listening is a fat sack of laughs if you want it to be.

You'll need a wild imagination, inventiveness, creativity, a projector with sound system and the ability to tell your boss to bog off and watch you do it when he tells you it's impossible.

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."