Improve your learners' listening comprehension
Our learners often struggle to understand native speakers or different accents. This course equips you with practical tools and strategies to demystify how listening comprehension works and help your learners build confidence and improve their ability to understand spoken English in real-world contexts.
Overall rating from participants: 5/5
Sorry! We don't have any sessions planned for the moment. If you're interested in doing this course, please email catherine@astarformation.com
Programme objectives
Understand how the brain processes a second language and the link between pronunciation and comprehension
Explore key features of native-speaker speech and strategies to teach connected speech and sentence stress effectively
Learn practical techniques to help students decipher unfamiliar accents
Thanks for a great course! Lots of things I can use right away.
Katie, Trainer
Great interactive course. I have come away with a lot of new ideas to put into practice next week!
Kate, Business English trainer
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How the brain deciphers a second language
The connection between pronunciation and comprehension and how to combine the two
Features of native-speaker speech: connected speech, sentence stress
How to teach native-speaker features to your students
Helping your students decipher other unfamiliar accents: where to fund resources for different accents
Comparing familiar and unfamiliar accents
Practical ideas for comprehension practice
Tools and tricks to help your students
Course content
Course information
1.5h of interactive group online workshop (Zoom) with Catherine
You'll come away with practical ideas that you can implement immediately
This course is aimed at anyone who teaches adults
Cost is 35€ net de taxe
After the training, you'll receive an attestation that you can give to your place of work to show you have been doing professional development.
About your trainer, Catherine
Catherine has been teaching adults for 25 years. She spent 7 years working for the British Council in Japan and Singapore as a teacher and teacher trainer before coming to Paris, where she had her own corporate training business as well as working in several grandes écoles. Since moving to Grasse in 2014, she has been running her training company, A Star Formation.
She has a Masters in Linguistics and the Trinity College certificate and diploma in TESOL. She is also a certified Neurolanguage® Coach and has done many different professional development programmes including intercultural communication trainer, neuroscience of communication, neuromarketing, language coaching and collective intelligence.
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