• Our Listening Course

    To access the course materials, please click on the corresponding lesson number.

    Introduce the objectives of this course and then the concept of a corpus and its relevance to language learning.

    • Introduce the most common pronunciation features of different English varieties. Select some examples from corpora to demonstrate the pronunciation features of Inner-Circle (IC) Englishes.
    • Listening practice with IC English accents.The teacher will select speech samples of IC Englishes from the corpora and play them to students.

    Lesson 3

    • Introduce the most common pronunciation features of different English varieties. Select some examples from corpora to demonstrate the pronunciation features of Outer-Circle (OC) Englishes.
    • Listening practice with OC English accents. The teacher will select speech samples of each variety of English the corpora and play them to students.

    Lesson 4

    • Introduce the most common pronunciation features of different English varieties. Select some examples from corpora to demonstrate the pronunciation features of Expanding-Circle (EC) Englishes.
    • Listening practice with EC English accents. The teacher will select speech samples of each variety of English the corpora and play them to students.

    Lesson 5

    Focused listening practice I with IC English accents (listening stimuli are selected from spoken corpora, e.g., IDEA/SAA/EdUC/TED)

    Lesson 6

    Focused listening practice II with OC English accents (listening stimuli are selected from spoken corpora, e.g., IDEA/SAA/EdUC/TED)

    Lesson 7

    Focused listening practice III with EC English accents (listening stimuli are selected from spoken corpora, e.g., IDEA/SAA/EdUC/TED)

    Lesson 8

    • Introduce methods for incorporating listening practice into daily routines, including dictation, story retelling, and shadowing exercises.
    • Present listening strategies that students can use to prepare for high-stakes exams like IELTS and TOEFL.

    Lesson 9

    Students reflect on their errors in the listening exercises, identify the potential listening challenges caused by pronunciation issues, and give a presentation focusing on their personal listening difficulties, specifically highlighting the pronunciation issues they have identified. They may follow the following steps.

    • List all the words/phrases that they could not get from the listening exercises from different English varieties.
    • Categorize the errors into different categories: vowels, consonants, linking, stress, unfamiliar words, speech rate…
    • Think of possible remedies to the listening comprehension problems

    Lesson 10

    • Students will do a final listening test in which the listening stimuli were selected from various English accents and see if there is any improvement in understanding different English accents.
    • Introduce some practical skills in addressing students listening difficulties, such as making predictions, story retelling, and note-taking skills.
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