Where does your prep time go when you need level-appropriate listening audio? What makes a listening task truly benchmark-aligned, not just on-topic? And how do you check comprehension at different cognitive levels, without writing every question by hand?
This session walks through a repeatable workflow for building benchmark-aligned listening activities, using AI as a drafting partner. We start from a blank page and end with a finished task: a leveled dialogue, its audio, and comprehension questions sorted by cognitive level. The focus stays on the method and teaching decisions, so it works with whatever tools you already use.
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Webinar Type: Technology
Categories: Assessment, Lesson Planning/Ideas, Listening, Technology
Teaching Sectors: Adult ESL (credit), Continuing Education/Adult ESL (non-credit), LINC, Self-employed
Participant Level: No previous knowledge required
Cedric Mwambi-Kabongo (he/him) is a LINC instructor in Nova Scotia with roughly eight years of experience teaching adult newcomers across multiple CLB levels. His classroom work, designing listening and comprehension materials, led him to develop faster ways to create custom audio, which he has presented at TESL Nova Scotia and TESL Canada.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-mwambi-694744243/
Raji Sathya (she/her) is a LINC instructor in Nova Scotia who teaches adult newcomers across multiple CLB levels, specializing in lower-level learners. She co-presented on AI-assisted listening materials with Cedric
at TESL Nova Scotia and focuses on practical, classroom-ready language tools.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raji-sathya-52b0488/
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