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FINDING AND USING
LISTENING MATERIALS
Lynn W Zimmerman, PhD
ICT AND LISTENING Technology-based listening activity
can be done by the individual can use it in class
Extensive or intensive Students should recycle the language in
each stage of the lesson Create human-human interactions Provides ample scope and opportunity
for integrated lessons activitating all 4 skills
EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR LISTENING MATERIALS Relevance Interest Appropriateness of topic Authenticity Newsworthiness Currency Pedagogical soundness Usefulness Comprehensibility Length
EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ONLINE LISTENING MATERIALS Downloadability Availability in streaming mode Amount of bandwidth required Format Interactivity
AVAILABLILTY OF SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS Transcripts Related activities Tutorials Audioplayer downloads Visual support Key vocabulary
ESPECIALLY FOR ELLS Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab www.esl-lab.com English Language Learning Lab Online
www.elllo.org The English Listening Lounge
www.englishlistening.com BBC English Learning Home Page
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
Takako’s Great Adventure http://international.ouc.bc.ca/takako
Real English Online www.real-english.com
RADIO AND TV SITES: TOPICS Science
Earth & Sky www.earthsky.com
The Discovery Channel www.discovery.com
History The History Channel
www.historychannel.com
Literature Poetry Archive
www.poetryarchive.org MobyLives
www.mobylines.com NPR: Books
www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId-1032
Commercials Funny Commercials
http://funnycommercials.nl
Clio Awards www.clioawards.com
Everyday Life BBCs Video Nation
www.bbc.co.uk/videonation
Sports ESPN Sports Zone
http://espn.go.com http://espnradio.es
pn.go.com/espnradio/index
RADIO: GENERAL World Radio Network
www.wrn.org/audio.html BBC www.bbc.co.uk National Public Radio www.npr.org Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
www.cbc.ca Australian Broadcasting Corporation
www.abc.net.au Voice of America
www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm
TV: GENERAL ITN www.itn.co.uk ITV www.itv.com Central TV www.centraltv.co.uk Channel 4 www.channel4.co.uk ABC http://abc.go.com CBS www.cbs.com HBO www.hbo.com NBC www.nbc.com PBS www.pbs.org
PODCASTS FOR ELLS Breaking News English
www.breakingnewsenglish.com/podcast.html
Jokes in English Podcasts www.voiceblog.jp/joke
The Daily Idiom Podcast www.englishcaster.com/blogs
The English Teacher Show http://englishteacherjohn.com/podcast
TOEFL Podcast www.toeflpod.com Voice of America’s Special English
www.voanews.com/specialenglish/daily_radio.cfm
PODCASTS FOR EVERYONE National Public Radio (NPR) Podcast
Directory www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
BBC Documentaries www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries
CBS News Podcast Feeds http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Podcasting
AUDIO BOOKS Audible.com www.audible.com Sherlock Holmes Audio Books
www.pinkgeekaudio.net/weblog3 Project Gutenberg’s Audio Books
www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 Repeast After Us – Children’s Stories
http://repeatafterus.com
DIGITAL VIDEOS Easily accessible and even
downloadable from the web Get visual support Keep in mind
How will the learners benefit?How does it support the curriculum?How will the video enhance the audio
component?How will you use the clip?How will you assess learners‘
comprehension?
VIDEO SITES Apple Movie Trailers www.apple.com/trailers Movietrailers.com www.movietrailers.com English Trailers www.english-trailers.com The Internet Movie Database
www.imdb.com CNN (or other news media) video clips
www.cnn.com/video_vault Guiness World Records
www.guinessworldecords.com Brain POP www.brainpop.com The Biogrphy Channel
www.biography.com/broadband/home/index.jsp
AUTHENTIC LISTENING ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS Choose one website and select an item you
would use with your students as a listening activity. Fill out the chart about the item. You may do this activity individually or in pairs.
Web Site: ___________ Name(s): _________Listening Activity Item URL
Why did you choose it? (2-3 sentences)
Describe either a during listening or after listening activity your students will do. (75-125 words)
REFERENCE Krajka, J. (2007). English language
teaching in the Internet-assisted environment. Lublin, Poland: Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univeristy Press.