This course focuses on building the foundational skills of listening through highly engaging, visual, and short activities. The goal is to make listening a fun and interactive experience where students develop attention spans and learn to follow instructions.

Final Learning Objectives

The culmination of the activities should result in students demonstrating the following:

• Sustained Attention and Concentration: Students will be able to consistently maintain focus over short extended periods in listening tasks, significantly improving their attention spans beyond their initial capabilities.

• Accurate Instruction Following: Students will reliably process and execute multi-step verbal instructions in a meaningful context, translating what they hear into correct actions or outcomes.

• Effective Knowledge Acquisition: Students will demonstrate the ability to use their listening skills as a primary tool for learning, resulting in an measurable improvement in subject matter knowledge and comprehension gained directly from auditory input.

• Active and Interactive Participation: Students will demonstrate the capacity to engage dynamically with listening material, moving beyond passive reception to actively participating and responding in interactive learning scenarios.

This course builds upon the foundational listening skills developed in Listening 1 and introduces students to more complex, structured, and purpose-driven listening tasks. In Listening 2, learners strengthen their ability to understand longer audio segments, recognize key information, and interpret meaning in diverse contexts.

The course incorporates rich audio input such as short conversations, instructions with multiple steps, brief narratives, and real-life situations. Students begin to practice predicting content, identifying main ideas, and distinguishing details from general information. Activities encourage active engagement through problem-solving tasks, audio-based games, and comprehension challenges that promote critical thinking.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Follow multi-step directions with greater accuracy.

• Identify keywords, context clues, and speaker intentions.

• Understand short dialogues and simple storytelling.

• Develop confidence in listening without relying solely on visuals.

• Begin transferring listening skills to speaking activities.

Listening 2 transforms listening into a deeper cognitive experience, preparing students for higher-level comprehension and increased autonomy in language learning.