Manual of Using Coursera for English Listening : With an Example
Manual of Using Coursera for English Listening
: With an Example
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① Go to www.coursera.org and select a course. A course, “Creative problem
solving”, under the course catalog of “Personal development” is selected as an
example. You can choose a course in line with your students’ needs.
② Before enrolling the course, you can check course information such
as expected time to spend, syllabus, how the course works, reviews, and
others.
③ Once you click “Enroll Now”, you can choose either “Purchase course” or “Audit
only”. Select one of them, and click “Continue”.
* This process can be different depending on schools or courses.
④ Now you’re enrolled in the course. Let’s “Start learning”.
⑤ You can see the course sequence and initiate the session from
the week 1.
⑥ Usually, on the left side, you can choose weeks. One the right side,
content is shown.
⑦ Below the screen, you can find the script of the lecture. Using this
script, you can make listening materials. For example, the written script
from 4:19 to 5:24 will be used for demonstration.
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⑧ Go to www.lextutor.ca which is a web-based text analysis site. Click
“Cloze” and “2. VocabProfile Clozes (frequency based): English” in order.
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⑨ Put the select part of the script in the box.
⑩ Select a band according to English level of your students. You may choose one of
these options: 1) 1k_content (the 1st 1000 most general words); 2) Post 1k; 3) 2k (the 2nd
1000 most general words); 4) Post 2k (Academic Word List and beyond that); or 5)
Post_AWL (special words not included in 1k, 2k, and AWL).
⑪ Check “Number questions?” and “Gaps not menus?”, and click “Submit”.
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⑫ You can use the obtained texts with blanks and the list of the
removed words to give your students a dictation activity, which is to
listen to the lecture and fill the blanks.
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References
Coursera. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.coursera.org
Lextutor. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lextutor.ca