There are similar strategies that are needed for efficient listening and reading. Choose two strategies that apply to reading and listening. Explain each strategy and how it applies to reading and listening. Then suggest one type of activity to help students develop one of the strategies that you explained. Be sure to describe the type of student this activity can be used with (e.g., young learners, adolescents, adults, college students):

5. Decode language effectively and quickly without using context, when needed.

       Student is an excellent decoder, using linguistic skills, semantic and syntactic knowledge to authentically and automatically, recognize vocabulary and context.

8. ELLs need to develop metacognitive awareness of top-down, and bottom-down strategies, and skills.

       Student is simultaneously using top-down, and bottom-up strategies, and consciously practicing, by applying knowledge of roots, to guess meaning of unknown words.

An activity for college, ESL students, practice and apply effective reading and listening strategies, would be a timed reading, that uses unfamiliar words, in an already practiced topics. I found a worksheet, at http://www.losmedanos.edu/assessment/documents/accuplacer-esl-samplequestions.pdf, that is college, level ESL testing. There is not as much motivational, fun to the worksheet, but is a test to understand where the student is in processing ideas, understanding concepts, predicting, using top-down, bottom-up together, and their metacognitive application of knowledge. This tests, both 5. And 8. Strategies. Here is one question that has listener administering these skills:

R4. Speaking to a group of people can be a frightening experience. Some speakers cope by looking above the heads of the audience. Others try to imagine that they are talking to a friend. A few try picturing the audience in some non-threatening way, such as in their pajamas.

The author of the passage assumes that speakers should

A. feel comfortable when addressing an audience.

B. scare the audience.
C. encourage people to talk during the speech.
D. speak only to familiar people.

The answer is A. the author wants the reader to know, you should feel comfortable when speaking to a group of people, because he gives tips on how to feel comfortable, even though it can be a “frightening experience.” This text would be timed. I would use the time to see the students, pace in processing questions.

ACCUPLACER ESL Reading Skills Test. (2007, January 1). Retrieved November 29, 2014, from http://www.losmedanos.edu/assessment/documents/accuplacer-esl-samplequestions.pdf