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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.
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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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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