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Margarita Herrera Parrado Jorge Meja Osorio Carol Modera Romero Brady Narvez Campo
CONTENT
Definition Why
teach listening? Teachers and students difficulties Top tips A successful listening activity Listening exercises
LISTENING
Listening
is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning (Howatt and Dakin). An able listener is capable of doing these four things simultaneously.
hear different accents and varieties. Listening helps students to acquire language subconsciously. Listening is a receptive skill. Education. Mass communication.
listening skills is one of the most difficult tasks for any ESL teacher. Sometimes students feel frustrated because they find listening difficult Why?
DIFFICULTIES
Students are trying to understand every word. Students go back trying to understand what a previous word meant. Students just dont know the most important words. Students dont recognize the words they know. Students have problems with different accents. Students get tired. Students have mental block. Students are distracted. Students cannot cope without images. Students have hearing problems.
PRE Tell
LISTENING:
TOP TIPS
Make
sure students know what they are listening for before you start listening
Give
Check
know
Check
know
Short Stop
listening
the recording
WHILE Try
LISTENING:
to play the recording once for overall comprehension and then for specific details. notes ( dates, places, people)
Take
Repeat
parts
POST-LISTENING:
Compare
Encourage Write
a summary of the main points and then compare. a list of any new vocabulary.
Make
REMEMBER!!!
Try
advertisements, news programs, poetry, songs, extracts from plays, speeches, lectures, telephone conversations, informal dialogues.
1
Reduce distractions and noise during the listening segment.
2
make
3
Read
4
Play
a video clip with the sound off and ask students to make predictions about it.
5
Give
LISTENING EXERCISES
SOURCES