Teaching Listening: Principles, Techniques and Technologies Moderator team: Olya Sergeeva, Lizzie Pinard, Elena Wilkinson, Jennie Wright, Richard Cauldwell, Hellen Haga, Daniela Martino, Evgenia Antonova and Veronica Arena.

Objectives: To revisit frameworks for listening lessons and analyze the principles that guide the choice of listening tasks. To help teachers to create materials aimed to scaffold out-of- class listening, increasing their repertoire of listening activities, including activities that make use of technology. To foster the analyses of what proficient listeners do and what implications this has for teaching listening. To share online tools, resources and websites that can be used to address the common listening problems and that are useful in a number of contexts. To engage in discussions and share tips on teaching listening with and without technology.

Session communication tools Course overview Every week participants were exposed to: One live session (recorded to make up for time differences) Course materials: articles, blog entries, booklets, videos, etc. Open debates and discussions. Active participation through planning and carrying out both in and out-of-class activities. Session communication tools Schoology Facebook (Optional)

Week 1: Autonomous listening out of class Out-of-class resources Log for scaffolding out-of-class activities (share and comment) Week 2: Traditional listening framework authentic materials with lower level students listening activity/lesson based on authentic material

Week 3: Critical Thinking and High Order Thinking Listening Tasks high order thinking listening activity (share and comment) Week 4: Decoding Skills features of connected speech in authentic extracts revisit their out-of-class listening schemes (share and comment)

Some examples

Week 5: Practical Activities for Teaching Listening Decoding Skills software tools that make it easier to teach decoding skills listening decoding activity for their learners (share and comment)

Some key facts: 523 registered participants More than 400 introductions in week 1 3,198 comments

As a participant: Revisiting key concepts Refreshing ideas and strategies Sharing experiences involving both frustrations and effective activities. Identifying similarities and differences regarding teaching and learning contexts around the world Feeling part of a group

As a moderator: Overwhelming at first Encouraging discussion Challenging ideas Expanding social circles Learning, unlearning and relearning

Thank you!!