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Encouraging Students to Enhance Their Listening Performance

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dc.creator Hernandez-Ocampo Sonia Patricia
dc.creator Vargas María Constanza
dc.date 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:19:31Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:19:31Z
dc.identifier 1657-0790
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/be2be73472c743759e7333193a696758
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19753
dc.description <div><span style="font-size: small;">Spanish-speaking students constantly complain about the difficulty they have comprehending spoken English. It seems teachers do not often provide them with strategies to alleviate that. This article reports on a pedagogical experience carried out at a Colombian university to help pre-service teachers at an intermediate level of English to improve their aural comprehension. The students were given the task of designing listening activities to be worked on as micro-teaching sessions and were asked to describe their experience by answering a survey. The results showed that students developed the ability to think critically since they needed to make the best decisions regarding the audio level and the design of the activities. They also appeared to have become more autonomous as they realized they could be responsible for their improvement in listening. Additionally, there were evident changes in the teachers’ roles.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Es común que los hablantes de español se quejen de su comprensión oral en inglés. Parece que los profesores no siempre dan a sus estudiantes estrategias para mejorar al respecto. En este artículo se describe la experiencia pedagógica desarrollada en una universidad colombiana con el propósito de ayudar a los estudiantes de inglés intermedio de una licenciatura a mejorar su comprensión auditiva. Se pidió a los estudiantes desarrollar actividades de escucha para ser trabajadas en sesiones de microenseñanza y describir su experiencia, contestando una encuesta. Los resultados evidenciaron que los estudiantes desarrollaron su pensamiento crítico en la medida que necesitaban tomar decisiones con respecto al nivel de dificultad del audio y al diseño de las actividades mismas. También se mostraron más autónomos por cuanto se hicieron conscientes de su responsabilidad en el mejoramiento de su comprensión oral. Adicionalmente, se dieron cambios en los papeles del profesor.</span></div>
dc.language English
dc.publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
dc.relation http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/36508
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1657-0790
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 199-214 (2013)
dc.subject Autonomy
dc.subject critical thinking
dc.subject teacher’s role
dc.subject teaching listening
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Encouraging Students to Enhance Their Listening Performance
dc.type article


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