Support for Teaching Listening

Listening skills: Top Tips
By Miles Craven
Miles Craven offers some useful techniques to use when teaching listening.
Listening matters: Top-down and bottom-up listening
By Adrian Tennant
Adrian Tennant explores two concepts relating to how students process listening texts – 'top down' and 'bottom up' – and gives some practical ideas for the classroom.
Listening matters: Process listening
By Adrian Tennant
Adrian Tennant takes a look at the issues surrounding teaching listening, gives advice on how teachers can help their students and provides some practical ideas for the classroom.
Listening Skills: A Brief Guide
By Miles Craven
A short, handy guide to the skills students need to practice to become better listeners.
Listening matters: Tasks for listening
By Adrian Tennant
Adrian Tennant looks at common listening issues and provides practical hints and tips for putting students at the centre of listening tasks.
Listening matters: Active listening
By Adrian Tennant
Adrian Tennant looks at ways of bringing realistic listening – active listening where students are fully engaged – into the classroom.
Listening to the news
By Miles Craven
Why not tell your students to listen to the news? It’s a great way to practice authentic listening. They can listen on the radio, on television, or on the internet. Miles Craven presents tips and tricks for using the news in class.

Listening skills: Top Tips