Dec 18, 2025

Scaffolding Listening Skills for Literacy Learners

Please join us and guest host Bahareh Karkheiran Khouzani on Thursday, December 18th at 4PM (MST).

Bahareh will introduce a process-oriented approach to listening instruction for adult literacy learners in Stage 1 LINC (CLB 1–2). Drawing on classroom experience and a capping project, she will show how scaffolded, repetitive tasks build confidence, comprehension, and foundational skills for learners with limited formal education. The session focuses on adapting phonics stories and levelled texts into structured listening activities that develop skills like sound discrimination, word segmentation, and matching audio to visuals. Instructors will gain practical, ready-to-use strategies.

Instructors will learn to create supportive, learner-centred environments and gain practical, ready-to-use strategies for their LINC classrooms.

Discussion Questions:

1. What everyday listening tasks (e.g., understanding clinic instructions, catching a bus number, following teacher directions) do your CLB 1–2 learners struggle with most? How can we scaffold these tasks effectively?
2. How could you use a short, simple story (such as a phonics or leveled text) for real-life listening practice—for example, listening for key words, identifying who/what/where, or matching to pictures?
3. How can we design listening tasks that help literacy learners handle practical situations like shopping, appointments, classroom routines, or safety instructions?

Please email DonnaClarke@Immigrant-Education.ca for the ZOOM link to this session.

ATESL Chapter: Provincial