Topics include conducting a communications skills assessment, setting performance objectives, choosing materials, documenting progress. The workshop is designed to actively involve participants. Video and audiotapes of actual clients are discussed. 261 ESL students frequently come to the U.S. inexperienced in listening to authentic English and unprepared for the lack of match-up between written and oral English. This presentation offers activities for listening to relaxed, natural English, ways to check comprehension accuracy, and examples and explanations of how we speak.
Audience participation is encouraged.
Visual feedback displays are available to any instructor or student with access to a computer and the Internet. Free Internet resources can convert almost any computer into a personal language lab. This workshop offers clear guidelines on how to identify priorities, smoothly incorporate speech and pronunciation into everyday courses, and use practical classroom techniques. Participants are encouraged to view pronunciation teaching as an enjoyable, rewarding experience. The presenters demonstrate authentic questionnaires and quizzes that produce hours of animated pair and group discussions.