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Tony Alessandra: Jump Starting Your Listening Skills
Motivational speaker Tony Alessandra's ten techniques to active listening.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Shopping (Compras) Listening Dialogs
At this site designed for Spanish speakers of English, students listen to a conversation between a shopper and a store clerk. Then they answer questions that test their listening and comprehension skills. Instructions are in Spanish.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Listening: Dialogs
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...
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Story Arts: Listening Skills Table for Storytelling
Two rubrics to assess a listener's attention during a storytelling session. The first is used to record frequency of audience reactions. The second is used to access the listener's level of comprehension.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
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Voice of America: Dynamic English for Vietnamese Speakers
English lessons for native speakers of Vietnamese using Voice of America news content. A new lesson is posted every two weeks, but you can access past lessons too. Lessons provide short reading, listening, or dialog practice passages...
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Zut!: Interactive French Activities
This site provides activities for teaching and learning French organized by level. Basic lessons include learning to talk about oneself and numbers; more advanced lessons cover contemporary France, immigration, the distribution of wealth...
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Daily Esl: Conversation Starters for English Students
Listen and read along with several real-life scenarios to help expand understanding and conversational language. Listening activities are followed by a variety of quizzes, discussion questions, and role-play activities.
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension
An article highlighting the improvements of middle and high school students' reading comprehension through a sixteen-week program. Includes introduction, overview of the intervention, course structure, sample activities, assessments, and...
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Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Going to the Library
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing their experiences in libraries, and comparing them. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers into the classroom...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Describe Christmas or Other Holiday
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing the Christmas and other holiday traditions. Uses a variety of tenses. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers...
University of Texas at Austin
Univ. Of Texas: Comparing the Business World
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing the difference between American businessmen and women to the business world of their home countries. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along....
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Describe an Organization & Function
Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing how an organization and what they do.Varied vocabulary and grammar usage. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native...
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Critical Thinking Community: Teaching Tactics That Encourage Active Learning
Eleven great ideas for teachers to engage their students in active learning and listening.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Active Listening Overview: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept and components of active listening. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Active Listening Overview."
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Listen and Write
[Free Registration/Login Required] Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice website. Students type passages that are read aloud and then checks for error.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Listen to a Chat About Class Schedules
A listening comprehension exercise designed for native Spanish speakers learning English. Students listen to a short conversation about class schedules and then answer questions based on what has been heard. Instructions are in Spanish....
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Dialogic Listening
Dialogic listening is similar to active listening but is an alternative. This site outlines its four major characteristics and provides related links.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports/hobbies: Pronunciation/sonidos
This Spanish-speaking ELL tutorial practices sound recognition - contrasts short "ch" and "j" sounds as in "choke/joke". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Weather Pronunciation
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition. Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested follow-up activities....
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Pronunciation/sonidos
Extensive site focusing on Spanish-speaking ELL. This section practices sound recognition - contrasts sounds as in "cap/cup, ran/run." Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's...
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