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From http://www.amylenord.net

Teacher Amy Lenord writes:

If you think about it, our traditional (and maybe even current) methods for implementing listening in our classroom have been very inauthentic and disconnected from whole language. When in life are we only allowed to listen to something twice? When we listen to something, when do we ever put pictures in order or listen to match the audio to pictures? I would argue that even the listening practices designed for level 1 students are too simple and very inauthentic in comparison to the interpretive proficiency we really want to develop in our students. This doesn't mean that the audio programs from textbooks that many of us have are obsolete, just our methods for using them and our choosing to use only that type of listening with our students.

My suggestion is something I like to call listening in layers and so far it has worked for any language and any level of student.

Read the full blog post to learn how to guide your students through listening in layers: www.amylenord.net/1/post/2014/04/listening-in-layers.html