Listening in the Classroom: Teaching Students How to Listen - Paperback

by Marnie Reed (Editor), Tamara Jones (Editor)

Listening is the skill learners use the most, but language educators often receive the least preparation to teach this skill. Teaching listening means more than just giving students listening activities and checking for understanding--it means teaching them how to listen. Listening in the Classroom takes promising research findings and theory and turns them into practical teaching ideas that help develop listening proficiency.

Key topics within this book include:

• metacognitive awareness for listening


• understanding spoken speech, addressing listening challenges


• fostering word recognition


• identifying thought groups, taking academic notes


• listening in real life

Educators will find more than 50 activities they can start using with their learners right away!

Author Biography

Marnie Reed is professor of education and affiliated faculty in the Program in Linguistics at Boston University. She is also director of the graduate program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in the College of Education, where she teaches courses in linguistics, second language acquisition, and applied phonology.

Tamara Jones has taught in Russia, Korea, England, and Belgium. She is currently the associate director of the English Language Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, USA. Tamara holds a PhD in education from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.