Michael Rost

Activity and Resource Book with Audio CD

Prentice Hall PTR

Leo Level 1 Full Course with Instructor Tools Online Component American Version with Media (With CD Rom)

Leo Level 2 Full Course with Instructor Tools Online Component American Version with Media (With CD Rom)

J. J. Wilson

Listening is now regarded by researchers and practitioners as a highly active skill involving prediction, inference, reflection, constructive recall, and often direct interaction with speakers. In this new theoretical and practical guide, Michael Rost and JJ Wilson demonstrate how active listening can be developed through guided instruction. With so many new technologies and platforms for communication, there are more opportunities than ever before for learners to access listening input, but this abundance leads to new challenges: how to choose the right input how to best use listening and viewing input inside and outside the classroom how to create an appropriate syllabus using available resources Active Listening explores these questions in clear, accessible prose, basing its findings on a theoretical framework that condenses the most important listening research of the last two decades. Showing how to put theory into practice, the book includes fifty innovative activities, and links each one to relevant research principles. Sample audio recordings are also provided for selected activities, available online at the series website www.pearsoned.co.uk/rostwilson. As a bridge between theory and practice, Active Listening will encourage second language teachers, applied linguists, language curriculum coordinators, researchers, and materials designers to become more active practitioners themselves, by more fully utilising research in the field of second language listening.

Active Listening

The WorldView Placement Test is designed to help teachers place students in the appropriate level of WorldView. It was piloted with English language learners in various parts of the world, and the items on the pilot tests were analyzed by an expert in the field to determine the final forms of the test. WorldView is a four-level English course for adults and young adults. WorldView builds fluency by letting students explore and talk about a wide range of compelling topics presented from an international perspective. WorldView's trademark two-page lesson design, with clear and attainable language goals, ensures that students feel a sense of accomplishment and increased self-confidence in every class.

Michael Rost

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