Targeting Listening and Speaking
Strategies and Activities for ESL/EFL Students

Keith S. Folse and Darren Bologna

About the Book

Targeting Listening and Speaking provides short and focused activities to help lower-proficiency ESL/EFL students improve their listening and speaking skills. It includes practice in both mastering the larger message and key words/phrases and specific words and sounds to assist students in developing better speaking and comprehension skills.

Each unit has a general theme -- such as food, animals and pets, free time and hobbies, and travel -- around which all exercises are designed.

The final unit consists of four listening tests that can be used to monitor progress. Each unit includes:

• dictation practice using dialogues
• listening skill development
• speaking practice
• listening to simple conversations
• sound practice with minimal pairs
• listening to simple lectures
• more speaking and discussion practice.

Materials of interest to teachers can be found on the companion website at: http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/compsite/targetinglistening/index.html.

Audio components (cassette and audio) are available. For the listening script (which is the answer key), go to http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/compsite/targetinglistening/index.html#answer.