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Patricia Arnold; María Teresa Martínez García – Hispania, 2025
Learners who lack the perception of specific sounds or pronunciation can attain a measure of inability to participate in meaningful communication due to their difficulties in understanding and being understood. This article presents lesson plans that provide a framework for addressing the needs of learners as they move from perceiving sounds to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Vowels, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
Tomoyuki Kawashima – English Teaching Forum, 2023
This article, by Tomoyuki Kawashima, presents two listening activities, using nonnative speakers as models, that "broaden … students' perspectives on English and enhance their self-perception as future English users." The activities help students understand that everyone, even native speakers, has an accent, and that sounding…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Self Concept
Ryan, Jonathon – ELT Journal, 2022
For many language learners, listening represents a major source of anguish, with apparent success in the confines of the classroom failing to be mirrored in the ordinary interactions of daily life. One contributing factor may be the continued reliance on listening texts and activities that position the learner as a bystander rather than a…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Art Tsang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Many scholars and teachers in EFL education should agree that compared with reading and writing, listening has received much less attention. This brief article discusses important gaps existing in EFL listening and overall proficiency development. It presents the case for a greater focus on sounds and actual listening in the classroom and spoken…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Silvers, Stephen Mark – English Teaching Forum, 2023
Fun facts--facts that are interesting, unusual, and often little-known--are a popular form of entertainment throughout the world. There are countless books, TV quiz shows (Jeopardy!), board games (Trivial Pursuit), and museums (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) dedicated to trivia and the unusual that fascinate people of all ages. Short oral…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Domenic DeSocio – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
Immersive virtual reality (iVR) is a novel form of computer technology that promises to transform not only the delivery of language and cultural instruction but also how students produce language. The existing, yet limited, scholarship on the applications of iVR in the language classroom suggests affective and cultural benefits (e.g., increased…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Siegel, Joseph – Language Teaching, 2022
This paper reviews and discusses research on notetaking during academic listening conducted in both first (L1) and second language (L2) contexts and is organized into two main categories: research that is beginning to impact English for academic purposes (EAP) classrooms and that which has yet to make an impact on EAP, but should. Overall, I…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
Ibrahim, Nizar Kamal – English Language Education, 2022
This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. It responds to the concerns of educators who get enthusiastic about teaching critical literacy, but become perplexed when they start reading about its theories. This causes some to avoid it altogether and leads others to argue for practicing it…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tasnim, Zarin – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The purpose of this pedagogical article is to suggest the effective use of songs in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a second language (ESL) classes, including the benefits, challenges, criteria, lesson planning, and guidelines, so that teachers can design tasks using songs to improve their learners' listening ability. After…
Descriptors: Music, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kita, Caroline A.; Eley, Michelle R. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
This article examines how the radio drama, or "Hörspiel", might be successfully implemented in the German classroom to train students' ability to listen for context. "Hörspiele" can help students reduce their dependency on visual stimuli, develop critical and discerning listening skills, and acquire familiarity with a…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Second Language Learning
Miao Li; Sarah Jerasa; Jan C. Frijters; Esther Geva – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Phoneme discrimination is the ability to detect subtle similarities and differences between phonemes. Phoneme discrimination is a strong predictor of reading development and poor phoneme discrimination may predict reading disabilities (Lyytinen et al., 2004). The ability to discriminate phonemes may be an even more critical skill for Emergent…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Reading Difficulties, Students with Disabilities, Grade 1
Helm, Francesca – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter discusses a form of intergroup dialogue, that is dialogue as a method of communication that can be used to explore shared issues between groups from diverse backgrounds, dialogue that highlights the importance of people's lived experiences. For language learners, this kind of dialogue is an opportunity to communicate about themselves…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Dialogs (Language), Second Language Learning, International Cooperation
Magal-Royo, Teresa; Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2020
The use of new digital formats in language learning and testing improves both the learning and acquisition skills development process of language tests. The process of listening comprehension is considered one of the most complex in the field of Computer Aided Learning Language (CALL) because it relates to multimodal learning channels and brain…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception
Unver, Meral M. – Online Submission, 2017
In real life, people are exposed to various listening situations ranging from songs to chatting in social occasions (Ur, 1984). The variety of topics and nature of real-life listening situations put strain on learners of English; therefore, textbooks for language teaching are aimed to reflect these real life situations. However, listening, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Skills
Kidwell, Tabitha; Triyoko, Hanung – English Teaching Forum, 2023
Traditionally, many English language teachers around the world have conformed to an English as a foreign language (EFL) model. In this model, they expose their students to the standard language norms of English-dominant nations, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. However, English learners do not only need language skills to…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction