T ips for Teaching Listening introduces English language teachers to contemporary research and specific techniques for teaching listening. Topics include listening processes, skills, text types, academic listening, course planning, and assessment. Features: Vignettesin each chapter illustrate authentic learning and teaching experiences. What the teacher should knowand What the teacher can dosections link pedagogical research with classroom techniques. Concrete tipsin each chapter provide practical suggestions for planning, teaching, and assessing a language class. Activitiesin chapters and appendices provide classroom ideas for implementing each tip. Photocopiablehandouts with example activities from popular listening texts can be used in class with minimal preparation. Glossaryprovides concise definitions of commonly used terms. Audio CDincludes MP3 audio files for select handouts. The Tips for Teachingseries (H. Douglas Brown, Series Editor) covers topics of practical classroom-centered interest for English language teachers. Written in clearly comprehensible terms, each book in the series offers soundly conceived practical approaches to classroom instruction that are firmly grounded in current pedagogical research.