Integrating Authentic Listening Into the Language Classroom

The ‘ Teaching English‘ series offers a mixture of methodology and practical ideas for teachers of English as a foreign language. Integrating Authentic Listening into the Language Classroom: Practical guidance on how to teach real-life listening forms part of this series. There is a need for this book because, historically, English language teachers have not been trained in how to teach authentic listening effectively. In addition, the scripted and graded recordings used to model new language (lexis and grammar) in coursebooks are very different from the spontaneous spoken English students encounter beyond the classroom. Consequently, teachers tend to avoid using authentic recordings in class and students struggle to deal with authentic speech in the real world. Integrating Authentic Listening into the Language Classroom address these shortfalls and equips readers with the knowledge and skills to use authentic recordings in their teaching with confidence.