Communication Spotlight: Ideal for Oral Communication Classes

Teach your students useful conversational strategies

Teaching Listening: Teaches your students how to listen to English in the real world. Bridges the gap between classroom English and real world English. Students learn to move beyond "teacherese" and understand the English used in the real world.

Teaching Speaking: Teaches students to communicate effectively. Students learn to use strategies to communicate more effectively using the language that they have. Practice + useful instruction

Developing Short Term Memory: Stretch and develop your students' short term memory capabilities. Vital for fluent understanding.

Students will learn:

• Conversation management
• Compensation strategies
• Involvement strategies
• Confirmation strategies

Plus Listening Skills and Strategies: weak vowels, assimlation, liaison, elision, inferencing and so on. Teaching the skills of listening explicitly!

Used by a growing number of universities around the world!

Top-Up Listening1 Top-Up Listening2 Top-Up Listening3

"...actually teaches students how to listen"

- Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

Helping Students Bridge the Gap between Classroom English and the Real World.

The Top-Up Listening series features English as it is actually spoken.

Top-Up gives students practice in drawing meaning from naturally spoken English in two ways: using their knowledge of the world and of the language to guess what's coming next, and using their knowledge of how English is actually structured as a sound.

Whaddaweemean? - how words run together, how sounds are lost, how vowels naturally weaken and entire words are dropped. Without knowledge of such patterns, listening is impossible. Lots of practice! Lots of variety! >> more info

For info on the background SLA theory to Top-Up Listening please click here.

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