Episode 27: Chiara Bruzzano & Marc Jones
In Teacher Talking Time’s first round-table episode, we focus on the topic of teaching and developing listening skills. Leo and Andrew are joined by Marc Jones and Chiara Bruzzano, both researchers on the topic of listening.
Marc and Chiara help us parse what current research and findings on listening says, and discuss what strategies and approaches we as teachers can utilize in our classes to best help our students.
This episode is divided into 3 sections:
1. The Differences between teaching, practicing, and testing listening (3:20)
2. Analyzing the standard approach to teaching listening (34:00)
3. Looking at what can be improved and suggestions of how to go about it. (1:02:00)
Three questions were used to help us define this roundtable discussion:
1. Is there a problem that our industry faces that you would like to address?
2. How is this topic relevant to teachers?
3. What outcomes do we expect to achieve at the end of this roundtable?
*This episode works in conjunction with the LYE Course "Teaching Listening Made Easy."
Follow Chiara:
Twitter: @chiara_bruzzano
View her website ETprofessional
Follow Marc:
Twitter: @marcjonestyo
View his website Marcjones.tokyo and getgreatenglish.com
Read his most recent article in the Journal of Second Language Learning and Research entitled “Investigating English Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Stated Practices Regarding Bottom-up Processing Instruction for Listening in L2 English.”
*For anyone interested in learning more about teaching listening, listen to the end of the episode for a discount code for the LYE course “Teaching Listening Made Easy.”
About the guests in this episode:
Marc Jones:
Marc has been teaching since 2003 and currently teaches English at universities in Japan. He started in private language schools and has taught in almost every context possible in Japan. He is particularly interested in Task-Based Language Teaching, listening and phonology learning, teacher development, teacher beliefs, classroom materials development, and neurodivergency in language teaching and learning. He holds a Trinity DipTESOL, and MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL from University of Portsmouth. His academic website is http://marcjones.tokyo/ and he blogs at http://getgreatenglish.com/ftsd
Chiara:
Chiara Bruzzano is a teacher and researcher at the University of Leeds, blogger at ETPro and materials writer. She is currently doing her PhD at Leeds in language education, with a focus on the teaching of English and listening in secondary schools. Chiara is also the founder of LanguagEd, a group of teachers, researchers and graphic designers producing professional development courses for teachers.
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