Saitama JALT:

Teaching Listening to Low Level Learners and Teaching the Strategies of Speaking

Date: Sunday, November 20th, 2005 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr (Author Communication Spotlight)

Description:
Teaching Listening to Low Level Learners: the importance of script and of suprasegmental phonology.
Teaching listening effectively means teaching both phonology and knowledge of discourse. That is, giving students a solid awareness and working knowledge of the phonology of natural connected speech, elisions and liaisons, weak forms and reductions helps develop their 'bottom-up' decoding skills while developing student knowledge of discourse, particularly of scripts (those discourses in English that tend to follow a set pattern) helps develop their 'top-down' predictive skills.

Teaching the Strategies of Speaking: helping students with fluency, involvement and clarification strategies
All of us use strategies when we speak. We use strategies to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing. We use strategies to show interest, to maintain and develop conversations. We use strategies that help with fluency. Learners of English in particular use strategies to compensate for their lack of language. This talk introduces a new speaking and listening text, Communication Spotlight, that in addition to giving students practice in talking and helping them with the means to do so, helps students be aware of and learn to use these different communication strategies.

Organization: Saitama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Saitama JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit,see map).

Location: Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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