| Developing Listening Comprehension | | | | Whether CDs, DVDs or VHS format, short three to |
| While your English as a foreign language learners may | | | | eight minute clips from popular movies are an excellent |
| only get to hear perhaps two or three, there are, in | | | | way to illustrate some varieties of spoken English.o |
| fact, more than a dozen distinctive varieties of spoken | | | | Video clips |
| English. When you are working with developing listening | | | | Documentaries, interviews, educational narratives and |
| comprehension skills it is frequently useful to | | | | even newscasts can be a welcomed source for |
| demonstrate several varieties and variations in spoken | | | | many difficult-to-find spoken English varieties.o Online |
| English to your English language learners. | | | | Radio |
| Six Useful Sources | | | | Like a giant octopus gone wild, the reach of the |
| Considering the vast differences which can exist | | | | internet is constantly expanding, spreading and growing |
| among English language schools and institutions world | | | | as if alive. Now more than ever before, you can listen |
| wide in regards to available facilities, most will still have | | | | to live feed radio stations from around the world.o |
| some access to one or more of these resources.o | | | | Online Television |
| YouTube and online videos | | | | With broadband internet access, web surfers are no |
| A virtual treasure trove of resources resides online at | | | | longer limited to world wide radio audio broadcasts. |
| YouTube and a host of other online video websites. | | | | Televised station programming, both pre-recorded and |
| You can hear and see a throng of historic figures and | | | | live, are now also widely available. Stations from the |
| famous personalities to sample their speech and | | | | U.K., Canada, the USA, India, Africa and even Australia |
| mannerisms.o Audio cassettes | | | | and New Zealand, among others, are available for free |
| There are literally millions of audio archives stored | | | | online around the clock. |
| online for your listening pleasure or to aid in developing | | | | Online or off, you can use any or all of these six highly |
| your listening comprehension skills. Personally, I like the | | | | useful resource suggestions to demonstrate several |
| Old Time radio broadcast websites which allow you to | | | | distinctive varieties and variations of spoken English. |
| listen to news, programs of all types from the 1930s, | | | | These can prove to be invaluable in developing the |
| 1940s, 1950s and on to our present day. They even | | | | listening comprehension skills of your English as a |
| have the original commercials included with many old | | | | foreign language learners. And they don't have to |
| time radio program broadcasts.o Popular Movie clips | | | | travel abroad to do it. |