A proactive ELF-aware approach to listening comprehension

Blagoja Dimoski

The paper presents an alternative approach to LC, developed by the author, which can be used either as an adjunct activity to existing listening segments in course textbooks or as a substitute for them. In this approach, the source of auditory output is not technology, but rather, it is the learners who engage in reading transcripts of listening texts aloud to each other in pairs. This participatory process places ownership of the language in the hands of the learners and opens, rather than closes, the door to learner inquiry and the negotiation of meaning during the listening task itself, providing greater authenticity and compatibility with ELF-oriented principles than traditional approaches.

The Center for English as a Lingua Franca Journal

The Center for English as a Lingua Franca

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ISSN 2189-0463

ISSN 2189-0463

http://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/celf/research/pdf/celf_journal_final2-2.pdf