The Multi-Level Classroom or The One Room Little Red Schoolhouse Revisited

Abstract

ESL classes are often composed of students from different language groups who are at different levels of language proficiency. We need to adapt traditional methods and settings to accommodate this reality if we wish to provide our students with rich language input. This article proposes a listening activity: the use of multilevel tasks drawing from a common text using the resources of the language lab. As well as offering a rationale and guide to the use of the language lab, it features practical suggestions for structuring exercises and examples of exercise types.