How to teach listening

Week 09: How to Teach

How to teach listening

Why might listening be more difficult than reading?

• The speakers set the pace
• Students cannot stop or go back
• Pronunciation and accent can interfere with comprehension
• Native speakers usually use repetition and redundancy.

How can we help our students?

Provide a listening contextPreteach vocabulary Give achievable and understandable tasks Give students time to process the new information Expose students to a variety of accents

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Analyzing listening texts

What can make a listening text challenging?

-Lexical density-Idimatic expressions -Familiarity with the topic -Grammatical complexity -Content completixy -Natural speech patterns -Redundancy -Natural speech (tone, speed, etc). -Voice quality -Quality of recording -Lack of visual clues

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Think - Pair- Share (TPS)

1. What can you do to adjust the difficulty of a linstening text? Task? 2. What are different options you have for dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary in a listening text? 3. Is giving students transcripts a good strategy to be used in a listening activity? Helps/hinders

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PDP

Process

Pre-listening

Post-listening

During listening

Key wordsGeneral opinions Identify purpose Fill in blanks True/false Inferences Listen and arrange

Discussion questionsRoleplays Speculation about people Project Make a story

PredictionQuestions Elicit topic Introduction Interact personally Talk about the main topic

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Learning objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to.... (SWBAT) complete receptive task X while working with text Y so that they can then do post test activity Z

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