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Meryem Busra UNSAL

TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language - Advanced, Senior Year Translation Students level

TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Advanced, Senior Year Translation Students level

Description

In this lesson, how to integrate listening and speaking teaching in an EFL classroom will be discussed. The lesson will start with the theoretical and scientific background of teaching listening and speaking, and will continue with practical activities regarding the integration of listening and speaking skills for various proficiency levels.

Materials

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Worksheet 1

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Worksheet 2

Worksheet 3

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

Worksheet 3

Main Aims

By the end of the lesson, TEFL students will understand, experience, and design integrated listening-speaking tasks suitable for communicative English classrooms.

Subsidiary Aims

- Explain the rationale for integrating listening and speaking. - Identify the stages of an integrated skills lesson. - Experience an integrated task from a learner’s perspective. - Design a short integrated activity for a specific teaching context. - Reflect on assessment and feedback strategies for both skills.

Procedure (80-105 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In the first 8 presentations, I will try to cover what we did last week and introduce this week's context.

Exposure (12-15 minutes) • To explain the rationale for integrating listening and speaking.

Between slides 8 and 25, I will explain the scientific and historical background of teaching listening and speaking based on theories like top-down interpretation, bottom-up processing, and schema theory. I will enhance the instruction with some personal examples from aviation and a comedy show memory on schemas. I will end this stage with the explanation of different listening types and sources for listening.

Listening Question Generation Task (10-12 minutes) • To practice producing questions for various listening strategies

After slide 25, students will work in groups of 3 and they will be given worksheet 1, in which some listening tracks are provided with QR codes. Students will listen to the tracks and write down 8 different questions for 8 different listening strategies.

Talking About Speaking & Integrating listening and speaking (8-10 minutes) • To introduce different types of speaking

Between slides 27 and 36, T will introduce different speaking tasks and types according to Bygate (1987). After a brief introduction, T will guide a whole-group discussion on different types of speaking according to the hypothesis by Bygate (1987). Between slides 36 and 45, T will focus on the importance of integrating listening and speaking.

Assisted Practice (20-25 minutes) • To experience an integrated task from a learner’s perspective.

T will give students worksheet two from Learn English Teens on organizing your time with the Pomodoro technique. After doing the activity as students, they will discuss the 18 questions regarding the content and the quality of the activities in pairs.

Lesson Plan Production (15-20 minutes) • To design a short integrated activity for a specific teaching context.

Students will work in pairs. They will be given a worksheet with a listening QR code embedded (there are three different tracks, so that students can experience different activity preparation for the levels they wish to develop a lesson plan for). Students will be given 10 minutes to listen to and complete the activity.

Lesson Plan Production - II (12-18 minutes) • To reflect on developed activities for both skills.

Students will listen to their friends' lesson plans, and share their comments about each others' plans. A small classroom discussion is expected here.