Theoretical and Practical Aspects of

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2007 EPIK Orientation Walter Foreman
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The Theory and Practice of Teaching Listeningin
Korea
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Online supportwalterforeman.com/epik
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Know your audience
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Know your audience
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Know your audience
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Know your audience
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Know your audience
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Know your audience
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Prior teaching experience? (any field/any
location)
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Prior ESL/EFL teaching experience? (any
location)
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Prior experience in Korea? (any reason)
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Prior teaching experience in Korea?
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Read (or even looked at) my article in your
guidebook?
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Enough about you
lets talk about me!
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• 1996 B.Ed (English) University of Saskatchewan
• 2005 M.A. (P.C.) University of Sydney
• 2010 (expected) Ph.D. (English Education) Korea
  National University of Education

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Todays Topics

• Whats special about listening?
• Whats the basis of listening?
• Starting a class (daily/semester)
• Using songs
• Using student input
• Focusing on sounds
• General teaching tips

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Whats special about listening?
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The basis of listening.
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All meaning is negotiated.
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BLUE
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BLUE
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BLEW
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BLEW
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Share and compare.
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Starting a class.
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Dictation

• Simple procedure
• Negligible preparation time
• Immediate feedback
• Reduced anxiety
• Variety of material

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Dictation

• Where do you want to go for dinner?
• The dentist is going to have to see me.
• What do you say to going for a hamburger?

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Lets Learn About Walter
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Lets Learn About Walter
http//audacity.sourceforge.net
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Lets Learn About Walter

• Share and compare
• Comprehension questions
• Cloze (fill-in-the-blank) activity

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Nametags
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Using songs.
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Short Skirt / Long Jacket
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Student input.
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Dont you mean?
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Dont you mean?
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Student input.
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Numbers
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Numbers
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Focusing on sounds.
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• Alice asked her friend A. John / B. Joan,
  Would you please A. wash / B. watch my A.
  cups / B. caps for me? Then Alice went home and
  saw her brothers playing with their A. cards /
  B. cars. Alice asked her brothers, What did
  you do today? They told her that they had seen
  some pretty A. girls / B. gulls. Later, Alice
  asked her brothers to A. wash / B. watch her
  A. birds / B. buds for her

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Bob went to buy some A. shirts / B. shorts the
other day. But he had to A. walk / B. work for
several hours. After he bought them, he found a
nice A. colander / B. calendar. He had found
it in the middle of some A. glass / B. grass.
On his way home, he met his friend A. John
/ B. Joan and they went to a A. copy / B.
coffee shop. They had to talk about the A.
ship / B. sheep they wanted to buy.
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• Yesterday I went to the store and bought A. 12 /
  B. 20 bottles of milk. After that I took bus
  number A. 18 / B. 80 to my friends house.
  There were about A. 17 / B. 70 people on
  the bus. It took A. 13 / B. 30 minutes to get
  to my friends house. At my friends house we
  played video games for about A. 15 / B. 50
  minutes and then we went downtown on bus number
  A. 616 / B. 660.

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Sound Distinction Activities

• Read words which may or may not contain the
  chosen sound
• Learners identify yes or no if the sound was read

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• pick
• leaving
• green
• live
• quiz
• peel
• breathe
• bin
• cheap
• peak

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Sound Distinction Activities

• Distribute word lists to learners
• Call out one word from each set on the list
• Learners identify which word was read

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• think / sink
• sought / thought
• both / boat
• thin / sin
• moth / moss
• Thor / sore
• pass / path
• seam / theme
• Perth / purse
• broth / brought

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Sound Distinction Activities

• Call out word sets, learners identify which word,
  if any, is different

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• 1. then than then
• 2. end end and
• 3. set sat sat
• 4. left laughed left
• 5. guessed gassed gassed
• 6. led led lad
• 7. rap rep rep
• 8. Brad bread Brad
• 9. met mat mat
• 10. ladder letter letter

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Sound Distinction Activities

• Read lists, phrases, or sentences
• Learners categorize the frequency of particular
  types of words

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• Chair, Table, Dress, Jeans, Television, Shoe,
  Coat, Shirt, Bed, Hat

Id like a cup of coffee and a small piece of
cake. Id also like to order a milkshake and
some french-fries for my friend. Actually, could
you make that a glass of milk and a salad
instead? And maybe a bowl of soup too.
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• The woman ...
• a. doesn't really like soap operas
• b. loves to watch soap operas.
• c. needs to buy some soap.
• d. needs a new coat.

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• Listen and choose the best response.
• a. That's okay. Don't worry about it.
• b. Hey, are you from Australia?
• c. Oh, what's wrong?

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Accents

• International Dialects of English Archive
• The Speech Accent Archive

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• Accents

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Accents

• International Dialects of English Archive
• The Speech Accent Archive

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• Accents

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General Teaching Tips

• Routine
• Know your audience
• Goals and objectives
• Let students do the work

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• 5. Active and interactive
• 6. Student/teachers book
• 7. Adapt materials
• 8. Teach yourself
• 9. Real objects

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Online Support

• walterforeman.com/epik
• epik_at_walterforeman.com