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Honing Listening Skills with Audio & Video

Honing Listening Skills with Audio & Video. Deborah McGee Mifflin Johns Hopkins University mifflind@jhu.edu GWATFL / MFLA Fall 2010 Conference Saturday, October 16, 2010. Session Goals. Consider the learner challenges when listening in a foreign language (L2)

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Honing Listening Skills with Audio & Video

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  1. Honing Listening Skills with Audio & Video Deborah McGee Mifflin Johns Hopkins University mifflind@jhu.edu GWATFL / MFLA Fall 2010 Conference Saturday, October 16, 2010

  2. Session Goals • Consider the learner challenges when listening in a foreign language (L2) • Look at the basics of creating listening activities • Experience 3-4 German language examples & activities

  3. What are students doing? “Listening”

  4. matching words they hear with words they know making a mental representation tuning out distractions looking for clues “Listening” top down interpretation chunking bottom up processing comparing with world knowledge

  5. Choices – What to listen to! • Pros of authentic materials: • language in action • high validity • encripted cultural information • Cons of authentic materials: • assumes a native speaker audience • fast, idiomatic, dialect influences

  6. What now? • Finding & Storing (Internet, Books, Youtube) • Evaluating appropriateness, theme, level • Manipulating & Editing (Audacity, PowerPoint, other software programs) • Identifying purpose & linguistic challenges • Creating activities

  7. Template for Activity Sequence • Pre-Listening • Getting students ready • Providing vocabulary support • Previewing selected content • Listening • Providing motivation to keep listening • Multiple times, depending on purpose • Post-Listening • Working with meaning • Solidifying vocabulary knowledge • Evaluation

  8. Types of Activities • Inferring content from title, pictures, portions of text (Vermutungen) • Matching • vocabulary w/ visuals • vocabulary w/ L1 • vocabulary w/ L2 definitions • sequences

  9. Activities, continued • Listening • for specific vocabulary items • for longer expressions • for grammatical items • for words to complete a text (Lückentext) • Content • true-false • multiple choice • matching • fill-ins • short answer …

  10. Example 1 / Beispiel 1 Der relaxte Outdoor-Single Ein Ausschnitt aus Leonhard Thoma: “Idealpaar” (2007, Hueber) Stufe: ab A1 Themen: Language, Cognates, Lehnwörter Soundclip: 7,21 Minuten (Audio) Einstieg & Vorentlastung Hören: Clip 1: 1,59 Clip 2: 1,05 Clip 3: 1,15

  11. Example 2 / Beispiel 2 Erich Kästner: Ein Auszug aus “Als ich ein kleiner Junge war” (1957) (‚Erinnerungsorte’, Cornelsen) Stufe: B1 – C1; Intermediate to Advanced Themen: Heimatort, Kindheitserinnerungen, Sehenswürdigkeiten, Dresden vor und nach dem Krieg Soundclip: 2,25 Minuten (das Vorlesen einer literarischen Passage)

  12. Example 3 / Beispiel 3 Der kleine Nils von Youtube 2 – 3 minutige Radiosendungen von RTL Beispiele: Der Friseur (2,50) Der kleine Nils will heiraten (3,03) Der Führerschein (2,55) Pro: Short, Conversations, idiomatic, “real” Con: not ‘book’ language, slang, dialect

  13. Example 4 / Beispiel 4 Das Jahr 1968 in Bildern von Stephan Trinius (2009) Pictures w/ narration Downloadable from www.bpb.de Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung http://mediathek.bpb.de/Geschichte/objekt_648.html Stufe: C1 Thema: Geschichte, die 1968er Generation

  14. Handouts and Materials from this presentation are available at https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu:443/dmiffli1/GWATFL_MFLA%20Listening%20Mifflin

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