Understanding Natural Speech: Improve your listening skills

  • Bloque temático: Docencia en otras lenguas y habilidades de comunicación
  • Asignatura TEMDU: Desarrollo docente general e investigación

Objetivos del curso

- To introduce participants to a variety of methods through which participants can practice and improve their listening skills.
- To encourage active and focused listening..
- To help participants to listen accurately and efficiently.

Contenidos del curso

Session 1:
Words we don’t hear
Session 2:
Listening for key information
Session 3:
Following structure
Session 4:
Listening for detail
Session 5:
Predicting
Session 6:
Note-taking

Sesiones

14/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

15/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

21/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

22/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

28/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

29/01/2025 de 16:00 a 18:00 en Aula de Formación Docente, Centro de Estudios de Posgrado

Competencias que adquirirás

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- apply different listening strategies according to context,
- listen efficiently by, for example, distinguishing between important and unimportant information,
- listen accurately by, for example, recognizing elements of natural connected speech,
- better understand natural spoken English.

Ponentes

Matthew Boyson

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Metodología Docente

the course is taught over 3 weeks, with 2 sessions of 2 hours each week. This allows participants to put into practice what they learn in each session and then build on that knowledge in the following session.

Evaluación

- Attendance and in-class tasks
- There will be out-of-class tasks after each session and a final project at the end of the course.

Más información

Lynch, Tony, Study Listening, (Cambridge, CUP, 2004)
Roach, Peter, English Phonetics and Phonology, (Cambridge: CUP, 2009)
Rogerson, Pamela and Judy B. Gilbert, Speaking Clearly, (Cambridge: CUP, 1990)
Underhill, Adrian, Sound Foundations, (Oxford: Macmillan, 1994)
Wilson, J.J., How to Teach Listening, (Harlow: Pearson, 2008)

The course will be taught in English. A minimum level of B2 CEFR is recommended

La asistencia presencial de al menos un 80% del curso es un requisito imprescindible para la obtención del certificado del curso, independientemente del motivo que lo provoque, ya sea justificado o injustificado. El control de presencia será realizado por parte del equipo docente del curso.

La anulación anticipada de la participación en un curso no supone nunca una penalización para poder ser seleccionado en otro.

The course builds on and puts into practice many of the elements seen in parts 1 and 2 of Understanding Natural Speech. Nevertheless, it can be taken as a stand alone course.
The sessions are highly practical and students are introduced to the theory through the use of both studio and authentic recordings and videos.

- After each session participants will be given specific tasks to complete which build on and reinforce the content of the relevant session.
- At the end of the course there will be a mini-project for participants to hand-in, which brings together the most important aspects of the course.