How to teach listening

HOW TO TEACH LISTENING

Kidirbayeva Aynura

XT2-2028

LISTENING

• Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying.

What does listening involve ?

• Identifying information.
• Searching memories.
• Relating that information to those memories.
• Filling it in the proper spot.
• Creating a new place for it.

WHY TEACH LISTENING?

• Students hear different accents and varieties.
• Listening helps students to acquire language subconsciously.
• Listening is a receptive skill.
• Education.
• Mass communication.

Principles of teaching listening comprehension

• Let students understand how foreigners speak English and build students sensitivities.
• All teachers can do is give them some guidelines provide an opportunity for meaningful practice and trust they will learn these things for themselves. ( Buck,1995)

How to prepare students for listening tasks?

• Make it relevant to students

( interesting)

• Provide background knowledge.
• Pre-Listening exercise to activate content.
• Use a variety of activities.

Listening activities 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.

WHAT A DIFFICULT TASK…

• Teaching listening skills is one of the most difficult tasks for any ESL teacher.
• Sometimes students feel frustrated because they find listening difficult… Why?