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The importance of Listening in ESL

Listening: Easy or difficult

Interesting facts
We listen to a 100% But We remember only a 25% of the whole message Our brain builds up a 15% of connections of ideas to help us express the message to others

But what makes listening so difficult for students?

Lack of exposure to recorded activities as part of daily classes

How can we help students face listening in a different way???

Lets see some options to include more listening in daily classes

Music

Recordings

Online activities

Resources
http://www.englishmedialab.com/listeni ng.html http://lingual.net/game/listeningmaster/ http://lingual.net/game/english-wizz/ http://www.eslgamesworld.com/Revisi on/Level3/play.html http://www.medel.com/resources-forsuccess-soundscape/#prettyPhoto/6/

Now

Lets use them!

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