ELT365 · Day 155 — Detail listening — targeted information
Idea — After gist, a detail task focuses on specific information: a number, a name, a reason. Learners listen again with a narrow purpose. Processing is…
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ELT365 · Day 154 — Gist listening — the first question
Idea — A gist task asks one broad question answered by listening once through. It gives listening a purpose and stops learners trying to catch every…
ReadELT365 · Day 153 — Top-down vs bottom-up processing
Idea — Top-down: learners use context, topic knowledge, and prediction to build meaning. Bottom-up: they decode individual sounds or words first. Skilled listeners and readers do…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — What receptive skills are
Idea — Receptive skills are listening and reading — skills where meaning flows in. You decode; you don’t produce. Both are active, not passive: the brain…
ReadELT365 · Day 212 — Month 7 review — productive skills quiz
Idea — Thirty-one days of productive skills: accuracy and fluency, controlled and freer practice, discussion tasks, feedback slots, process and product writing, cohesion, register, and staging.…
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