Listening seems like a passive activity.
ESL teachers know better than anyone — that’s not exactly true.
Language learners need to actively develop their listening skills.
Listening is every bit as vital to learning as reading, writing and speaking.
But it often slips through the cracks in the classroom.
Listening exercises are regularly brushed over, confined to the dreaded audio CD that accompanies the textbook.
You yawn as you press play.
And then you start listening to the slow, staged dialogues involving Mario and Margaret’s outing to the store. You know the ones, right?
One thing’s for sure: if you’re bored, your students definitely are.
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