LISTENING
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This WebQuest provides to English learners some strategies to enhance their listening abilities. It takes into account both Bottom-up and Top-down processes through which they can improve and practice this language. The main aim is that students learn how to create graphic organizers from oral texts, such as mind maps. Furthermore, they will recognize idioms, and acquire vocabulary through listening tasks.
Natalia García & Paloma Marín
Tasks: There are five different activities in this WebQuest. The first activity is related to comprehend what is a topic, a main idea and supporting details. The second activity refers to listen to a video about Multimodality and to make a graphic organizer with the information. The third is based on creating a mind map from a video. The fourth activity is to recognize false cognates that appear in four songs for improving vocabulary. Finally, the fifth activity is to learn some idioms by comparing denotative and connotative meaning.
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Process:
This WebQuest has been created to comprehend learning as a process instead of a simple outcome. This section of our site has two parts for every topic: a theoretical and a practical one. The steps of the process are the following:
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1. Click in Listening Skill and read the text carefully in order to understand how important is this ability to improve language acquisition.
2. Next, click in Information Transfer to know the technique that supports the tasks.
3. Therefore, into the same part of Information Transfer, you will find the tasks in a specific order. Then, develop the activities proposed in the option main idea according to the video Animal Factories and the Abuse of Power by Wayne Pacelle.
4. Listen to the video about Multimodality and create a graphic organizer based on the following set of questions: What is and what is not Multimodality?
Write your personal opinion about it.
5. Create a mind map from the video What makes a good life? by Robert Waldinger. Take into account the explanations to organize it.
6. Click the option vocabulary, listen to the songs and answer the questions of each one.
7. Click the option idioms to read the explanation and watch the videos When Pigs Fly and Idioms taken literally to complete the chart according to the denotative and connotative meaning of each idiom illustrated in the last video.
8. Send the products of the five tasks in a Word File to the teachers' e-mails.
9. Complete the Self-Assessment Instrument.
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Resources: This platform offers several resources by which students can improve their listening skills, so it has videos about critical issues of society and specific parameters of the language, such us false cognates and idioms. In addition, it shows some web sites in which learners could find other listening exercises in order to practice.
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