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Improving 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.

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Dates: Friday April 4th 1-4.30pm

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 

Content

  • 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

​​To sign up, first complete this form and we'll send you any documents you need for FIFPL funding, as well as a Stripe link  (Payment by credit or debit card.) Email us if you have any other questions. 

Course information

  • 3.5h 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 100€ net de taxe. You can use your FIFPL fund to have the training paid for, but tfor this you'll need to do at least 7h of training, which is two modules. 

  • If you would like to request FIFPL funding, contact us to get the programme and contract that you'll need to make the funding request. 

  • 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. 

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Your trainer, Catherine Aygen 

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. 

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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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