Skill of Listening

Teacher's Role in the

development of Listening skill
among the students

M.Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor
 B4 EL CS –
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
 Unit – 2 :
Skill of Listening
2.1 Listening as a receptive skill.
2.2 Rules for effective listening.
2.3 Components of listening.
2.4 Evaluation of listening - Immediate recall,
recognizing transitions, recognizing word
meaning and Listening comprehension.
2.5 Teacher's Role in the development of
Listening skill among the students.
 2.5 Teacher's Role in the
development of Listening skill
among the students.
 Listening Skills
• Listening of a language depends
completely on its understanding or
comprehension
• When a student starts following the
sounds, stress, intonation and symbols,
that is words, pharses etc., he starts
understanding the ideas, thought or
meaning contained in a sentence or
structure
• It is only at this stage that he can be
expected to copy the same practice and
then out of his listening / another skill –
Speaking is born
• He can make an effort and gradually he
would find that his speech also develops
into correct, clean communication
signals
 Rules to develop proper Listening Habits
• Be attentive, note the sounds, train your ears
• Ear training helps in listening; note the stress
• Hearing sounds and separating them in pitch
is good
• Accuracy comes by noting the degree of
difference
• Proper auditory images are formed by
practice
• Develop a feeling for the new language
• Good listening habit ultimately makes a good
speaker
• Have practice in listening from talks, radio, TV
etc
• Good speech is the result of good listening
skills
• Don’t allow interruption in listening English
• Have good models of speech before you
speak
• Ask your doubts freely from your teacher
 Techniques to Develop
Listening Activities
• The teacher speaks out a number of words
and asks the students to point out whether
these are the same or different
Column One Column Two
Ice Eyes
Week Weak
Sit Seat
Sell Sale
• The teachers asks the students to group
these words into two or three groups:
• Pepper, paper, a file (with a blacksmith),
a file (with a clerk), pen, pain, pencil,
pin, pleasure
• I group – Items of stationery – Paper, file
(clerk), pen pencil and pins
• II group – Spice – Pepper
• III group – Blacksmith – file
• IV group – Feelings – Pain and pleasure
• Stress on sounds, emphasis etc, can also be
tested in a similar way
• The teacher asks students to arrange similar
sounds in groups by asking
• Arrange in two or more groups:
• We, But, Pet, Me, She, Wet, Net, Cut,
• I group – We, Me, She
• II group – But, cut
• III group – Pet, Wet, Net
• The teacher asks students to
perform these actions:
• Sit down, Open the desk, Bring your
note, Take your pen, Write your
name on the black board, Shut your
eyes, Close the door, stand up.
• In this way he checks up if they
follow the various commands
• The teacher shows a picture and then he
makes a few statements. Students have
to say Yes/No

• The teacher describes a place or a

person and the students are asked to
find out. They are asked to listen to the
teacher and locate a place on a map.
Thus their listening skills can be judged,
whether they follow or not
• A passage for Comprehension
• From the text book a passage is
selected. The teacher reads a paragraph
and after that he asks a few questions. If
the students have been able to follow
the passage by listening to the teacher’s
reading or questions he would get
answers to his questions. Later on he
can ask the students to read the
selected passage for their own
comprehension
• Tape Recorders and Cassettes
• These can be used for listening and
comprehension in classes of English.
Even the voice of Englishmen can be
used to show to the students their
vocal practices, stress,
pronunciation etc., by listening to
that
• TV in the Teaching of English
• The British Council has done
splendid job, in introducing teaching
of English with the help of the
Directorate of Education in Delhi
and this has now become a regular
feature for other subjects also
• Stories and Asking Questions
• The teacher can use well known
stories and after say, every
important stage ask a few searching
questions about the future or the
past actions to test comprehension
• Dialogues
• Two students may have a small
dialogue. The teacher may ask questions
about the dialogues. Thus also
comprehension can be tested and a
practice in listening given
• Speakers of English
• Good speakers of the subject may
be invited, to deliver short talks to
students and thus help them a bit in
improving their speech, listening
comprehension and general English
learning practice
 Sources are taken from

• Slidesharenet.com
• Web sources