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Listening is a difficult skill to teach. Often instructors test students' listening comprehension rather than providing instruction and practice that develops listening skills. Listening is a prerequisite to other language skills, speaking, reading and writing. This session introduces the importance of developing listening skills in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). The presenters share current research findings and approaches (bottom-up, top-down and mixed) in second language acquisition, then suggest some practical ideas and instructional activities for teaching listening in the language classroom.
Tertiary level EFL teachers’ professional development and its effectiveness Teacher education is the field which should be focused from the authorities since teachers are the key players in an effort to achieve the education change and quality. Teachers who are key players and directly involved in teacher preparation have to be professionally developed and should be put much greater attention from the government. Offering and providing high quality professional development programs is a cornerstone in improvement of teaching practice of teachers and the achievement of student teachers. In order to make professional development programs more effective, the teachers’ professional development programs should be based on the professional development theories. This study emphasizes how tertiary level EFL teachers and teacher educators perceive their professional development programs and their effectiveness. Key words: Tertiary level teachers, teacher educators, teachers’ professional development programs, professional development programs, EFL teachers
