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Teaching Listening

Teaching Listening. Some considerations in teaching listening. Listening as a receptive skill Listening as an active process The difference between listening and reading (spoken and written language). Principles. Use both top-down & bottom-up knowledge to help effective listening.

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Teaching Listening

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  1. Teaching Listening

  2. Some considerations in teaching listening • Listening as a receptive skill • Listening as an active process • The difference between listening and reading (spoken and written language)

  3. Principles • Use both top-down & bottom-up knowledge to help effective listening • Combination of BU & TD = interactive processing • Activating previous knowledge => pre-listening activity • Provide a context for interpretation and activate background knowledge which help interpretation • Provide different types of listening • Listening for specific information • Listening for global information / gist listening • Listening between the lines => inferences

  4. Principles • Provide different types of tasks • The students need experience with production task but don’t be too much • Consider the nature of the text • Text difficulties • Text authenticity

  5. Principles • Teach listening strategies • Predicting • Inferring • Monitoring • Clarifying • Responding • Evaluating

  6. Classroom Technique and Tasks • Dictation • Cloze procedure • Listening for gist • Inferential listening

  7. In the classroom • A warm-up activities • A main listening task • A speaking task related to the previous task

  8. Types of listening activities • No overt response: The learners do not have to do anything • - Stories • - Songs • - Entertainment: films, theatre, video • Short Response • - Obeying instruction • - Ticking off items • - True/false • - Detecting mistakes • - Cloze • - Guessing definitions • - Skimming and scanning

  9. Types of listening activities • Longer responses • - Answering questions • - Note-taking • - Paraphrasing and translating • - Summarizing • - Long gap-filling • Extended responses (“combined skills” activities) • - Problem-solving • - Interpretation

  10. Thank You Thank You

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