Language teachers understand that 21st century students must be able to communicate effectively with diverse people from many different cultures. In order to meet this challenge, teachers should emphasize communicative skills when instructing foreign languages. Students are required not only to understand, but also to produce language in oral and written forms. This webinar series will cover how to plan instructional activities that align with the three ACTFL modes of communication (Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational), as they relate to listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this session, we'll discuss speaking and listening activities.

1. Transparent Language Education Webinar Series
Create a Communicative Language Classroom:
Designing Activities that Teach All 4 Skills
Part I: Listening and Speaking
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2. Agenda
• Teaching Listening and Speaking
• What is it?
• How to do it?
• Classroom
• Anywhere, anytime!
• An Integrated Lesson Plan
• Q&A
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3. What is listening, anyway?
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• Receiving what the speaker says
• Discriminating between sounds
• Constructing meaning by understanding
vocabulary and grammar
• Interpreting stress and intention
What is listening, anyway?

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The Role of Listening in Curricula
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6. Designing Listening Tasks
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7. Designing Listening Tasks
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• Define the
purpose/goal
• Communicate
the context
Pre-listening
• Real-life
• Authentic
• Level-appropriate
Conceptualize
the task • Organize
activities
• Guide students
Implementing
the task

8. In the Classroom
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9. Listening Tasks:
Following Directions
Total Physical Response Follow-Me Tasks
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10. Listening Tasks: Completing
Charts and Graphs
Marking Items on Lists Charts
Audio 1 Audio 2
Who?
When?
Where?
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11. Listening Tasks: Using Visual Aids
Main Idea Focus on Details
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Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!

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Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!

14. Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!
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Podcast
+
Assignment
List
Chart
Questions
Google
Form
Listening Tasks: Anywhere, anytime!

16. Speaking
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17. What is speaking, really?
Mechanics
• Pronunciation, grammar, order
Functions
• Interaction, information exchange
Social & cultural rules/norms
• Turn taking, pauses
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18. Teaching Speaking: Process
• Form-focused
• Content-
focused
Input
• Structured
• Communicative
Output • Confirmation of
learning
• Correction
Feedback
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19. Teaching Speaking: Strategies
Minimal Response
• Useful in several situations, focus on conversation
Script
• Predictable, anticipated exchanges
Language use-in the language
• Clarification, conversation management
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20. In the Classroom
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21. Teaching Speaking: In the Classroom
Information Gap: Discuss the Differences
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22. Teaching Speaking: In the Classroom
Jigsaw: Experts
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Prepare a
description
of the recipe
Prepare a
shopping list
for a recipe
Prepare to
explain how
to make the
recipe
Team
A
Team
B
Team
C
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Practice Groups Report Teams

23. Teaching Speaking: Communicative Tasks
Role Play Scaffolding
Modeling
Cards
Open -ended
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24. Teaching Speaking: Communicative Tasks
Discussions (Open-ended)
Has an older
sister…
Went to a
foreign
country…
Plays a sport
and an
instrument
Can describe
their pet…
Can describe
what they’re
wearing…
Can explain
the
weather…
Can name 5
foods they
like…
Is an only
child…
Can name 5
things in
their
locker…
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Word Cloud Find Someone Who…

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Teaching Speaking: Anywhere, anytime!

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Teaching Speaking: Anywhere, anytime!

27. Integrated Classroom Lesson Plan:
Listening & Speaking
• Video clip demonstrating what they will learn
• Questions about topic/recent events1. Warm Up
• Create graphic organizer with vocabulary and
grammar structures needed for the activity2. Pre-Activity
• Groups listen to two different audio clips
• Groups identify main idea, details, answer questions3. Input
• A/B pairs are formed and students present
• Class is given a communicate task4. Output
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Integrated Classroom Lesson Plan:
Listening & Speaking
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