Developing listening skills

through ICT

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Virtues of ICT-enhanced listening

•visual context

(Hanley et al. 1995; Herron and

Seay, 1992)

•non-verbal communicative competence

may be brought to the fore

(Clifton, 2005;

Hurley, 1992)

•exposure to N-S language

(Barrett & Sharma,

2003)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Virtues of ICT-enhanced listening

•increased access to regional dialects

(Ur,

1984; Mead & Rubin, 1985)

•increased L motivation as Ss select mats

(Tuzi, 1998

)

•integration of listening and reading

(Barrett

& Sharma, 2003)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Virtues of ICT-enhanced listening

•timely/task-specific feedback

(Hoven, 1999)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

The methodology of computerised
listening compehrension practice

•interaction

•authentic audience

•authentic tasks

•exposure & production opportunities

•timing

•feedback

•learning style, motivation

(Egbert, 1993)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

The methodology of computerised
listening compehrension practice

•learning style
•motivation
•atmosphere (stress/anxiety level)
•L autonomy

(Egbert, 1993)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Online listening tasks:

(Listening normally precedes production)

•listening followed by non-linguistic response
•listening followed by short response
•listening followed by longer response

(Egbert, 1993)

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Online listening materials:

Comprehensibility factors

(Krajka, 2007)

•visual support
•audio-visual clarity
•language density
•speech delivery
•language content
•language level

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Online listening materials:

Flexibility factors

(Krajka, 2007)

•watchability
•completeness
•length
•appropriateness of content
•availability of related materials

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Digital video materials: Benefits

(Krajka,

2007)

•observing authentic language is use
•non-verbal behaviour
•cross-cultural context
•multisensory input
•combination of linguistic, contextual and

non-verbal information

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

Text-to-Speech Technology (TTS):
Benefits

(Krajka, 2007)

•facilitates pronunciation (clear

pronunciation and animated agents)
•builds Ls’ productive lexicon (graphic-

acoustic association)
•varied modes of listening (with/without text,

at varying speed, accents) facilitate listening

skills

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Dydaktyka szczegółowa - wykład Mariusz Marczak, PhD

Developing listening skills
through ICT

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