1 / 15

Working on Listening skills

Working on Listening skills. Passive or Active?. Listening is considered to involve the active selecting and interpreting of information coming from auditory clues so that a listener can identify what is happening and what is being expressed.

hanne
Download Presentation

Working on Listening skills

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. WorkingonListeningskills

  2. Passive or Active? Listening is considered to involve the active selecting and interpreting of information comingfrom auditory clues so that a listener can identify what is happening and what is being expressed. -Richards, JC. 1983. “Listening Comprehension: Approach, design, procedure.” TESOL Quarterly 17:2.

  3. Effective listeners • monitor comprehension • associate new information with background knowledge • make inferences about unknown words • continue listening even if they don’t understand certain words • have metacognitive knowledge about the task • manage to get the main idea rather than listen word-for-word

  4. What interferes with listening comprehension?

  5. What interferes with listening comprehension?

  6. Involve ss in focused listening • Make it relevant to ss (interesting) • Provide background knowledge • Pre-listening exercise to activate content • Use a variety of activities

  7. listening activities (with focus) to overcome the difficulties • giving them charts / categories • asking questions ahead of time • showing pictures/charts • discussing the topic first • describing the context • role playing the situation • providing key word list • brainstorming (situations / pros / cons) • Predicting • Doing follow-ups that allows them to connect directly with their lives

  8. Why, when, what and howmuchto listen in theclassroom? • Why? • Complex skill of the language learning. • Important component of communication. • Learn how to interact in a foreign language. • When? • From the beginner levels of learning. • What? • Authentic material including real language • Appealing material for students • How much? • In every single class. • The more we listen, the better.

  9. WHEN DOING LISTENING EXERCISES….

  10. SOME EXAMPLES

  11. Eg SONGS • Before listening activities: • Presentation of the new vocabulary (puzzles) • Talking about the band or singer’s background, how the author came up with the song. • How much the students know about the song • 2. While listening activities: • - Design completion exercises • - Replace words by drawings • - Scramble some words of the lyrics • 3. After listening activities: • - Matching exercises • - Inferring the purpose, meaning of the song • - Eliciting students’ points of view towards the lyrics • - Talking about students’ experiences related to the lyrics

  12. EXAMPLE MOVIES/ TRAILERS • Before listening activities: • Presentation of the new vocabulary (puzzles) • Talking about the students’ perceptions and points of view about the movie • How much the students know about the movie • 2. While listening activities: • - Questions about specific information • - Design True and False exercises • - Checking exercises • 3. After listening activities: • - Design open questions, matching or completion exercises • - Design questions about more general information • - Questions based on visual features

  13. THE INPUT HYPOTHESIS

  14. Look forinteresting material and come up withgreat Ideas foryour Students and make of your Teachingsomethingdifferent, Enjoyable and Niceto plan, somethingthat Invites yourstudenttolearn Notonlyforneedbutalsoforfun. Godblessyourjob!

More Related