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Open T utoring Session. Developing your Listening S kills. Let’s reflect on our listening. What kinds of listening activities do you do in and out of class ? What strategies do you use to try to understand all the information ?
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Open TutoringSession Developingyour ListeningSkills
Let’sreflectonourlistening • Whatkinds of listeningactivities do youdo in and out of class? • Whatstrategies do you use to try tounderstandalltheinformation? • What do you do toconfirmtheinformationyouunderstood? • What do you do whenyoudon’tunderstand?
Objectives • Identifyusefulactivitiestoimproveyourlisteningcomprehension • Establishstepstotaketo use listeningmaterialsproperly • Get familiar withusefulstrategiestobetteryourlisteningskills
Listeningstrategies • Predictinformationbasedonthecontextorimagesyou can see. • Take notes usingdifferentsstrategies – Abbreviations, symbols, organizinginfo. • Identifymain idea and specificinformation. • Payattentionto non-verbal clues. • Self- monitor tocheckcomprehension and strategy use.
2. TAKING NOTES This strategy is useful to remember the information better, focus your attention much more and confirm what you understood. Take your notes in an organized way – # of speakers Identify key words Use abbreviations, symbols and write only the relevant information If there’s a word you can’t identify write any symbol or a pronunciation equivalent Confirm with partners to check how effective your notes are.
3. FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON GENERAL INFORMATION • Listen to the complete conversation • Try to answer the question: WHAT IS IT ABOUT? 3. Take notes of your answers. 4. Don’t try to understand every single word.
NOW LISTEN FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION • Readthe questions you will have to answer about the listening exercise. • Circlekey words in the questions. • Use these words to focus your attention during the listening.
This strategy gives you extra and important information about the context where communication is happening. 4. USING NON - VERBAL CLUES • THIS IS HOW TO DO IT: • Pay attention to the participants' tone of voice or surrounding sounds. • If it is a video, play it with no sound and check the gestures and body language. • Identify the meaning of these non verbal clues (emotions, location of the participants or the relation among them) What does that information tell you? • Play the listening or video again and confirm your hypothesis.
HOW TO DO THIS: Check how many questions you could answer about a listening exercise. Count how many answers were correct and how many were wrong or incomplete. Think about why the listening was difficult and how you can improve. Give yourself a grade. 5. SELF EVALUATING • This helps you to notice if your listening skill is OK or if you need to work harder on it.
Let’spractice!!! • Wewillworkon 3 differentexercises. A conversation A song A video • Followtheinstructions and identify whatstrategiesyou can use.
Conversation • Identifythespeakers • Checkthemain idea and specificdetails – Whatisitabout? • Confirmvocabularypredictions • Compare notes • Check new vocabularyyouidentified • Whatstrategiesdidyou use?
Video • Identify non-verbal clues • Compare expressionsorvocabularythespeakersused • Revise Specificdetails – Extra info • Identifytheintonationorintention of thespeakers • Try togive a summary of the video
Song • Checkiftheimages can helpyou • Share thewordsyou can easilyidentify • Checkifyou can confirmpronunciationwiththewordsyou listen to. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvBAONkYwI
Evaluation Youropinionaboutthissessionisveryimportantforus. Pleasefilloutthesurveyformat. Thanks
