Priorities for Choosing Online Exercises

(Created by Classmates in TESOL PP 102 Listening Course)
  

Logistics

• · Easily accessible with transparent procedures
  · User-friendly format supported by most operating systems
  · Few steps to get to the clip, with a direct link whenever possible
  · Excellent quality audio without distortion, static, or other problems
  · Providing a written transcript to provide at the end for a final listening

Content

• · Interesting content to motivate participants to learn more and adapted to students’ immediate needs
  · A wealth of user-friendly supplementary materials & good supporting activities
  · Making use of the language & vocabulary that is part of my theme-based unit
  · Using the grammar and vocabulary my students currently need: videos
  · Having a cultural component to add to students cultural knowledge base
  · Level of material allowing improvement of listening skills, not discouragement
  · Short length, below 4 minutes

Listening Skills

· Attention to one or more of these objectives:
 1 triggering ideas for discussion and writing
  2 listening comprehension
    3 developing critical listening skills
     4 practicing pronunciation
· Incorporating listening strategies and teaching of listening sub-skills
· Promoting higher order thinking skills
· Providing authentic online tasks
· Engaging several senses: visual, mental, and the sense of need specific to the course content and learner expectations
· Including pre, during and post listening exercises for reinforcement

 Top 10 Listening Sites

Suggested ESL Textbooks for Listening

Suggested Multimedia for ESL Listening Activities

Sandra's Hybrid Intermediate Listening College Course: http://teacherrogers.pbworks.com/w/page/26701426/FrontPage