Usually I get students to work with the tapescript, or parts of it, AFTER a listening process. What reasons might there be for doing it the other way around? Predictive activities using the tapescript. These could involve students having a go at performing a dialogue, maybe marking features of connected speech or pauses, or words … Continue reading Reading before Listening, and other combinations
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