Tips for Helping our Students

TIPS TO BECOME ACTIVE LISTENERS

• Active your students' prior knowledge before any listening activity in order to predict or anticipate content.
• Assess you students' background knowledge on the topic and linguistic content of the text.
• If students are to complete a written task during or immediately after listening, allow them to read through it before listening.
• Use questions to focus students atention on the elements of the text crucial to comprehension of the whole.

Use predicting to encourage students to monitor their comprehension as they listen.

• Remind students to review what they are hearing to see if it makes sense in the context of their prior knowledge and what they already know of the topic or events of the passage.
• Use visual aids such as maps, digrams, pictures or the images on the video to help contextualize the input and provides clues to meaning.

ORAL EXPRESSION IN THE CLASSROOM

STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO...

• Share stories or retell and answer questions over stories read to them to demonstrate comprehension to predict or make inferences
• Express their opinios.
• Tell what the story is about (main idea) in sequence (beginning, middle, end)
• Summarie what they've read
• Question as they read 
• Clarify as they read