It’s all about the pre-tasks!
Helping learners to read and listen

An Interactive Talk from Pavilion ELT

It’s all about the pre-tasks! Helping learners to read and listen

In this interactive talk, Carol Lethaby discusses why we use pre-tasks when teaching receptive skills and how to design them effectively.

Speaker: Carol Lethaby

Recorded: 2 March 2022

Price: £6 (including VAT)

As part of your event ticket, you will also receive a discount code for £10 off copies of An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom.

Description: We all want to present tasks that are appropriate, challenging and achievable for the learner. This interactive talk presents some of the research into the effective teaching of reading and listening from An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom. Focusing on the importance of background knowledge to learning, the session explores why pre-tasks are so vital and considers how to design them effectively.

You will have the opportunity to discuss, contrast and evaluate different types of pre-reading and pre-listening tasks. Conclusions will be made about how the language teacher can provide tasks that really promote success in listening and reading comprehension in an second language (L2). The talk will finish with a short Q&A session.

About the Author

Carol Lethaby

Carol is based in San Francisco, California and is a part-time assistant professor on the New School New York online MA in TESOL, as well as an honoured instructor at UC Berkeley Extension.

Carol has worked on several textbook series for learners of English and is a frequent presenter at international conferences for teachers. More information can be found at clethaby.com

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An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom

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An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in the English Language Classroom defines evidence-based teaching, examines research findings into evidence-based teaching strategies and considers how they might apply to the teaching and learning of English language.

As part of your event ticket, you will also receive a discount code for £10 off

It’s all about the pre-tasks!
Helping learners to read and listen

An Interactive Talk from Pavilion ELT