Teaching listening skills effectively requires understanding both language learning research and practical classroom listening activities. In this first part of our two-part JALT podcast series, we interview Michael Rost, the leading expert in second language listening comprehension and author of the newly released fourth edition of "Teaching and Researching Listening."
Join Ash and Naheen (JALT Listening SIG President) as they explore Rost's key insights on engagement as the cornerstone of listening proficiency. Cooper contributes research on "materially engaged listening" and immediately applies Rost's timing advice to his own teaching, while Andrej shares his experience with dialect acquisition through listening practice and advocates for teacher action research. Discover why narrow listening works, learn about optimal listening clip lengths (90 seconds to 3 minutes), and understand how working memory affects ESL listening practice in your classroom.
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Perfect for language teaching methodology enthusiasts, university instructors, and anyone interested in research-based listening activities for Japanese language teaching contexts.
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