Akita JALT:

Teaching Listening to Low Level Learners: The Importance of Script and of Suprasegmental Phonology

Date: Saturday, December 10th, 2005 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr of ABAX Publishers

Description:
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.

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1,000 yen for non-members, 500 yen for students

Venue: Room B103 at AIU (Akita International University)

Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture, Japan

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