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Listening: Why Our Learners Struggle and How to Fix It w/Dr. Tamara Jones
Episode Summary:
In this 3rd episode of our TESOL 2025 Presenters’ Series, featuring Dr. Tamara Jones, we explore the common pitfalls of traditional listening instruction in classrooms. Dr. Jones reflects on her own experience of simply playing recordings and offering multiple-choice questions, highlighting that this method primarily provides practice rather than actual teaching. She delves into the challenges of understanding the listening process, both for students and educators, and raises and answers the important question of how to effectively teach listening skills.
RBERNing Questions for this Episode:
1- What are some of the key listening comprehension problems, and what evidence-based approaches do you suggest we take to solve them?
2- How do you think as educators we got into the practice of "assessing" listening rather than teaching the skills to improve it?
3- What were the measurable results of using some of the strategies you mentioned? What has been some of the feedback you've received from students who have completed these exercises?
Guest BIO:
Tamara Jones has taught in Russia, Korea, England, Belgium and the USA. She is currently the ELC Academic Manager at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. Tamara holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield in the UK and is a co-author of Q: Skills for Success, Listening and Speaking 4 and author of There must be 50 Ways to Teach Pronunciation and There must be 50 Ways to Teach Vocabulary. She is also the editor of Pronunciation in the Classroom - The Overlooked Essential and co-editor of Listening in the Classroom – Teaching Students How to Listen. Her research is currently focused on the connection between pronunciation and listening and she is always interested in practical ways to make pronunciation instruction integral to ESL/EFL.
Resources:
Websites/Contact Info:
https://www.howardcc.edu/programs-courses/continuing-education/english-language-center/
Email: [email protected]
To find out more about Mid-State RBERN at OCM BOCES' services, listen to season 1 of the show with host Collette Farone-Goodwin, or to receive CTLE credit for listening to episodes, click here: https://midstaterbern.org/
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By YasmeenEpisode Summary:
In this 3rd episode of our TESOL 2025 Presenters’ Series, featuring Dr. Tamara Jones, we explore the common pitfalls of traditional listening instruction in classrooms. Dr. Jones reflects on her own experience of simply playing recordings and offering multiple-choice questions, highlighting that this method primarily provides practice rather than actual teaching. She delves into the challenges of understanding the listening process, both for students and educators, and raises and answers the important question of how to effectively teach listening skills.
RBERNing Questions for this Episode:
1- What are some of the key listening comprehension problems, and what evidence-based approaches do you suggest we take to solve them?
2- How do you think as educators we got into the practice of "assessing" listening rather than teaching the skills to improve it?
3- What were the measurable results of using some of the strategies you mentioned? What has been some of the feedback you've received from students who have completed these exercises?
Guest BIO:
Tamara Jones has taught in Russia, Korea, England, Belgium and the USA. She is currently the ELC Academic Manager at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. Tamara holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield in the UK and is a co-author of Q: Skills for Success, Listening and Speaking 4 and author of There must be 50 Ways to Teach Pronunciation and There must be 50 Ways to Teach Vocabulary. She is also the editor of Pronunciation in the Classroom - The Overlooked Essential and co-editor of Listening in the Classroom – Teaching Students How to Listen. Her research is currently focused on the connection between pronunciation and listening and she is always interested in practical ways to make pronunciation instruction integral to ESL/EFL.
Resources:
Websites/Contact Info:
https://www.howardcc.edu/programs-courses/continuing-education/english-language-center/
Email: [email protected]
To find out more about Mid-State RBERN at OCM BOCES' services, listen to season 1 of the show with host Collette Farone-Goodwin, or to receive CTLE credit for listening to episodes, click here: https://midstaterbern.org/