Five online resources for extensive listening in the Japanese EFL classroom

Brett Milliner

To promote listening fluency and autonomous language learning, lower-intermediate Japanese students were asked to self-select and listen to six listening texts online for homework each week. After each listening, students completed a short listening log to summarise what they listened to and reflect on their listening experience. This paper will introduce the five websites most regularly used by students during the 15-week course. The author hopes that this paper’s theoretical discussion and selection of websites will assist EFL teachers in discerning which online resources would be more appropriate for implementing extensive listening components in their own EFL courses.

Accents Asia

Journal of the Teachers College Columbia University Japan Alumni Association

9

2

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1948-3503

1948-3503

http://www.issues.accentsasia.org/issues/9-2/Milliner.pdf