| Body | By Isabella Walters, CASLS Student Intern
This activity was designed for learners of all levels. It was created to help learners consider how to evaluate their own practice and progress as they listen multiple times to an audio clip of their own choosing.
Learners will be able to:
- Identify the main idea of their chosen audio clip
- Record 1 or more additional details from the audio clip after each time listening
Mode(s): Interpretive
Materials: After Listening: Listen Again and Again Video, earbuds or another listening device, Listen Again and Again worksheet
Procedure:
- First, have the learners reflect on a time they couldn’t understand something they heard in the target language. This could be a real-life conversation, a video, a song, or anything else.
- Facilitate a group discussion about frustrations and goals the students have surrounding listening and comprehension.
- Next, show learners the After Listening: Listen Again and Again video. After watching the video, provide a few minutes for learners to add to the brainstorming completed in Step 1.
- Ask the learners to find a short video clip, song, podcast, or other media that interests them to listen to. Advise them to choose something 3 minutes long or less, or to choose a short selection from a longer clip.
- Distribute listening devices to students who need them (if available) or have them use their own devices with headphones or earbuds.
- instruct learners to (a) listen to their chosen sources and (b) write down the main points they could understand. Pass out worksheets for them to record their main points.
- Next, give them time to listen. On the first time listening, they should fill in what they understand of the main idea in section A of the worksheet. On subsequent rounds of listening, they should write down any additional details they understand in sections B-D of the worksheet. This step may take different amounts of time for each individual learner. Remind learners that they should focus on what they do understand and do not need to understand every single word. They can repeat this listening and writing process as many times as needed.
- After roughly 10 minutes, get a raise of hands to see if learners have been able to understand the main points of their audio or video clips. If not, allow them additional time to work.
- Finally, conduct a group discussion about the types of information they understood when they listened to the source for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., time. For example, at which round of listening did they understand the main idea? On which round(s) did they fill in smaller details? How did the information that they understood change between each time listening, if at all? What factors contributed to this change in understanding?
Notes:
-Modifications (tech): In the case where listening devices and headphones are not available, choose (or have the group choose) a clip to listen to with the whole class and conduct the lesson using that clip.
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