Fostering writing proficiency in LSP courses: Integrating audio and video lectures to enhance academic listening and writing skills
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In comparison to productive skills, primarily speaking, listening has long held the Cinderella skill status in foreign language teaching. However, there is a noticeable change in that trend as nowadays there is more research, literature, and guidance on how listening can be taught more effectively. This paper explores one specific type of listening used in LSP courses, i.e. audio and video lectures. Lectures provide students with a general overview of a topic and thus present a starting point for further study at university. In LSP courses lectures in a foreign language can significantly contribute to learning that foreign language in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary, and can be used as an input for writing assignments, reading, or speaking activities. Thus, the main focus of the paper is on combining listening and writing, more precisely on how short audio and video lectures can be used in LSP courses to enhance students' writing skills. By listening to lectures students can, for example, learn how to take notes efficiently, and then use these notes to write an outline, a paragraph, an essay, or a lecture summary. Accordingly, the paper presents activities that can be implemented in LSP classes.
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