Teaching%20Listening%20Skills

1
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• 1. Stages in language growth
• The pupils should be led to
• (1) understand the material
• (2) repeat the material
• (3) give a description of the sounds, form,
  grammatical function, position, and meaning of a
  grammatical item
• (omitted in lower levels)
• (4) practice the material
• (5) Choose the correct word, expression,
  structure
• (6) use the new material in every communication
  situation

2
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• 2. Important elements
• (1) phonology (phonetic and phonemic system)
• (2) structure system
• (3) lexicon

3
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• 3. What is listening comprehension
• Definition decoding of the stream of speech,
  which involves continual mental processing,
  concentrated attention, and memory
• 4. Comprehension of utterances requires
• (1) perception of the sounds
• (2) recognition and identification of the
  segments (chunks of speech)
• (3) understanding the communicative expressions
  and syntactic structures
• (4) interpretation of the message

4
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• 5. Listeners require two kinds of knowledge to
  identify utterances
• (1) knowledge of the syntax and morphological
  elements
• (2) real-world knowledge
• 6. Process of storing a stream of speech into
  long-term memory
• (1) receiving message?placing message temporarily
  in short-term memory
• (2) selecting the main ideas
• (3) storing main ideas in long-term memory

5
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• 7. How can we help learners acquire the skills
  needed to identify, understand, and interpret
  oral input?
• (1) Teach the phonemic system
• (2) Teach necessary morphosyntactic rules and
  segmentation of subject, verb, object, phrases,
  and clauses
• (3) Repeat an utterance or a brief passage
• (4) Stop at the end of every utterance and ask
  questions to ensure comprehension

6
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• Before listening
• Explain difficult vocabulary/cultural allusions
  in the passage
• Give simple, clear, precise explanations of what
  to listen for through pre-listening questions.
• Divide a passage into manageable pieces.
• Discuss the pragmatic elements in the situation.
• Have learners make notes about what they expect
  to hear (based on the title).

7
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• While listening
• Give learners a list of facts and items they can
  check as they are listening.
• Give them maps on which they can chart a route
  being discussed.
• Tell them to jot down only the key words as they
  listen.
• Have them draw something simple which the passage
  suggests.

8
Teaching Listening Skills

• Reference Finocchiaro, M. (1989). English as a
  Second/Foreign Language From theory to practice.
  New Jersey, Prentice Hall Regents.

• After listening
• Take a dictation of the passage.
• Fill in a cloze test.
• Answer multiple-choice questions.
• Answer open-ended questions.
• Write a two- or three-line summary.
• Tell the style of the language.
• Tell who the speakers are, what their attitudes
  are.
• Tell what they can infer from what A has said.