Teach IELTS listening through explicit strategies and tips alongside task-based materials¶

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Description¶

The study prepared a set of strategic tips for IELTS listening, drawn from IELTS books, with which learners were instructed during treatment. The tips include reading the questions first, checking grammar to predict answers and guess from context, highlighting content words because it "strengthens our short term memory and helps us to simultaneously listen and read," identifying questions needing skimming versus scanning, practicing number discrimination, and managing time efficiently. The strategy instruction accompanied a wide range of listening input from task-based books used intensively in class and as out-of-class activities.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Learners must be familiar with all kinds of listening questions and the relationship between them, per the tips themselves

Constraints¶

• The tips note the listening recording is played only once, so listening style and strategy must be tuned to the real test's instructions and demands

Target Learners¶

• EFL learners at intermediate or upper-intermediate levels preparing for IELTS listening

Target Learning Goals¶

• IELTS listening test performance
• Listening strategies such as prediction, skimming, scanning, and time management

Related Strategies¶

• Listening and reading for specific information

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Ali Panahi. (2012). Binding Task-Based Language Teaching and Task-Based Language Testing: A Survey into EFL Teachers and Learners' Views of Task-Based Approach. English Language Teaching, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v5n2p148