Tag: Cambridge Listening Tips

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Teaching bottom-up processing Learners need a large vocabulary and a good working knowledge of sentence structure to process texts bottom-up. Exercises that develop bottom-up processing help the learner to do such things as the following: Retain input while it is being processed Recognize word… Continue reading Teaching listening #2 – Bottom-up processing (Cambridge ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] In this series of posts about teaching listening, I’m going to consider the subject from two different perspectives: (1) listening as comprehension (2) listening as acquisition Listening as Comprehension Listening as comprehension is the traditional way of thinking about the nature of listening. Indeed,… Continue reading Teaching listening #1 – Listening as comprehension (Cambridge ELT Blog)