1. Creating a Listening Website Introduce asialistener.com (real people talking about real issues) Website structure and construction.

2. On-Line ‘Authentic’ Listening: http://www.asialistener.com Advantages: Using authentic spoken material is superior to contrived material. Listeners feel interactive ‘tie’ to an authentic spoken text (Field, 2002; Flowerdew & Miller, 2005). Fosters ‘real-world’ listening (Field, 2007). Students are more likely to thinking about the speakers cultural and historical background, and the important issues in his / her life. (Thompson & Rubin, 1996). Students are challenged to think about three main listening strategies: predicting, inferring, selective attention, which may result in higher awareness (Thompson & Rubin, 1996). Bridges the gap between classroom knowledge and a students desire / capacity to participate in a real world event and consider real world issues as they affect the speaker. Listening is thus more personalized and humanized (Wilkins, 1976). Can be used for both ‘top down’ (overall comprehension) and bottom up (utterance recognition) (Richards, 2005).

3. Lesson Tasks – Relating Hong Kong to the Wider World: 1.Pre-listening discussion relates student knowledge to wider world. Student Life (student exchanges, favorite study subjects). Work (truck driver, high school teacher). Social Issues (undocumented workers, minimum wage). 2. While-listening (bottom-up) tasks. listening comprehension gap fills. Sentence completion. 3. While-listening (top-down) tasks. sequencing tasks. True / false questions. 4. Post-listening Inferring vocabulary. Interview people in similar situations. Write an essay about similar issue.

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