Procedure

Expected Strategy learned

1

Teacher chats with students in L2 for several minutes about their study and course—how things are going, what they did in their spare time-music, sports.

Motivational management

2

Teacher introduces the topic of the listening task “Management Gurus” and asks students to think about former GE CEO Jack Welch and Microsoft present CEO Ballmer. Then ask them to write down any words they can think of related to great corporate leaders and the topic.

Advanced organization
Background association
Self-management

3

Teacher announces that he/she will play the videodisc through once. The students should listen for the general ideas about both CEOs - Jack Welch and Ballmer and then tell teacher if he or she likes them or not.

Directed attention
Lowering anxiety

4

Teacher writes some difficult vocabulary and useful expressions on the computer screen so as to draw their attention to these words. The teacher then plays the disc the second time and asks students to listen for the new words and try to guess the meaning from their understanding of the whole text.
The teacher can also ask students to note down all the vocabulary describing both CEOs.

Such as “legacy, visionary, empower, accountable”
Linguistic inferencing
Voice inferencing
Grouping
Repetition

5

After some general feedback about what kind of person Jack Welch and Ballmer are, the teacher announces that he/she will play the disc a third time. This time students are directed to the basic facts of the two people — leading style,? work achievement, personality, changes management etc. Students will do the first exercise—matching column A and column B. Give students time to read the questions.

Selective attention
Inferencing between parts
Extrolinguistic inferencing
Story-telling techniques (Time-sequences, personality-traits, mile-stone inventions etc)

6

This time, the teacher asks the students to work in groups of 3 or 4. They should first compare their answers for listening tasks and make necessary changes, and then use the information in the listening to give a brief introduction to the two famous leaders.

Cooperation
Performance evaluation
Problem identification
Personal elaboration
Academic elaboration
World elaboration
Transfer

7

Teacher distributes a skeleton handout of the scripts segment or the teacher asks students to complete the second table in the textbook exercise. Students listen to the disc once more to complete the notes.

Note-taking
Academic elaboration
World elaboration

8

Teacher pairs up students and asks them to practice, either giving an oral summary of the two great CEOs, or briefing the major achievements made by the two CEOs.

Summarization
Performance evaluation