Teaching EFL Learners Shadowing for Listening Developing Learners’ Bottom-up Skills
Teaching EFL Learners Shadowing for Listening Developing Learners’ Bottom-up Skills by Yo Hamada, published by Routledge on July 7, 2016, is a comprehensive exploration of the shadowing technique for enhancing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) listening skills. This 188-page book presents a detailed examination of shadowing, an active method where learners track and vocalize heard speech simultaneously, distinguishing it from similar techniques like Elicited Imitation and Mirroring. The author aims to clarify common misconceptions surrounding shadowing while providing empirical data to support its effectiveness in language acquisition.
Readers will find a thorough discussion on the theoretical and practical aspects of shadowing, including its application in teaching materials and procedures, as well as insights into learners’ psychological factors. The book serves as a guide for instructors looking to implement shadowing in their teaching practices, offering strategies to improve learners’ bottom-up listening skills. With a focus on education and language arts, this edition is designed to assist both English language learners and educators in their linguistic endeavors.
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Shadowing, an active and highly cognitive technique for EFL listening skill development, in which learners track heard speech and vocalize it simultaneously, is gradually becoming recognized. However, there remain a lot of mysteries and misunderstandings about it. This book uncovers shadowing in terms of theory and practice. This book cements shadowing as a separate technique from other similar techniques such as Elicited Imitation, Mirroring, and simple repetition, and provides ample empirical data to explain the function of Shadowing. It also elaborates on how Shadowing should be used in terms of materials, procedure, and learners’ psychology, which would aid in instructors’ use of Shadowing in teaching. A guide on a method effective in improving learners’ bottom-up listening skills, this book will certainly prove useful to English Language learners and instructors in their linguistic pursuits.
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