Teaching Listening | A Short Podcast

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The goal of teaching listening skills is to produce students who can use listening strategies to maximize their comprehension. To help students achieve the goal there are of course many things that teachers should consider. Yet, the consideration should be mostly on the process of listening rather than the product of listening. If the focus on the product of listening only then the tendency is that we do not teach listening rather we test listening. Then what are the strategies? The following articles discuss theories about the development of listening skills, tips on how to deliver listening activities and some practical tips on listening activities that can be performed by teachers and students while learning a language.

A podcast is an episodic series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient, integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices. 

 Here is my podcast about my culture chock when I visit Australia for a week. you can listen it on SoundCloud HERE

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