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Teaching Listening
Teaching Listening
ULIS, VNU
Contents
Components of listening skill
Reasons for teaching listening
Types of listening
Principles of teaching listening
Stages of a listening lesson
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Discuss
What is the difference between listening in the
real world and in the classroom as to:
Why we listen?
What we listen?
When we listen?
How we listen?
What does listening involve?
Does listening need to be taught? If students are
taught to speak, doesn’t it automatically follow
that they will learn how to listen?
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Listening in the real world
• We listen when there is an information gap, i.e. when we
want some information that we don’t have
• We listen to what interests us
• We listen for different purposes different types of
listening:
– Listening for a general understanding,
– Listening for some specific information that we are
seeking
– Listening for the details of a story (Listening for detailed
information)
Listening in the real world
• We make use of both verbal (i.e. discourse markers, intonation)
and non-verbal (facial expression, gestures, standing position)
clues to understand our interlocutors.
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What is listening?
Listening consists of a series of micro-skills:
Predicting what people are going to talk about
Guessing unknown vocab without panicking
Using one’s own knowledge to help one understand
Identify relevant points; rejecting irrelevant information
Retaining relevant points (note-taking; summarising)
Recognising discourse markers (well, the thing is, etc.)
Recognising cohesive devices (such as, which, etc.)
Understanding different intonation patterns, stress
Understanding inferred information (attitude, intention)
(Willis, 1981)
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Why teach listening?
Listening is an important skill:
Prepare students for real world listening
Let them hear a variety of accents
Use taped materials apart from the teacher such as
Broadcast news, announcement, advertisement, etc.
Teach them effective listening strategies
Question to consider?
Do you listen to someone give instruction (e.g.,
how to make a drink) and listen to radio daily
news in exactly the same way?
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Types of listening
Listening for general understanding
e.g., listening to news headlines
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Providing Top-Down and Bottom-Up
Listening Practice
Bottom-up skills
distinguish individual sounds, word boundaries, and
stressed syllables
identify thought groups
listen for intonation patterns in utterances
identify grammatical forms and functions
recognize contractions and connected speech
recognize linking words
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Stages of a listening lesson
Pre-Listening stage
While-listening stage
Post-listening stage
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Pre-listening stage
This stage prepares Ss for the listening tasks:
Gets Ss to think about the topic or situation
Gets Ss to relate to what they already know
Arouse their interest
Teaching new words*** (if these words are essential to
understanding the material)
*** this is not a vocab lesson, you should develop passive
knowledge rather than getting sts to use the vocab to
communicate)
Goals:
Motivation
Contextualization
Preparation
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Examples of pre-tasks
Introducing general content of the listening passage
Making use of pictures (if any) to present new
vocabulary
Presenting more words/phrases from the tapescripts
Getting Ss to pronounce words/phrases carefully
Reviewing already-presented grammatical patterns
Presenting new grammatical patterns (if any)
Asking Ss to predict content of the listening
Etc,
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While-listening stage
This stage helps Ss to listen better, more accurately,
thoroughly through carefully designed
comprehension tasks
What should the teacher do at this stage?
Giving clear instructions for the task
Playing the tape once (non-stop) for Ss to get the
general content of the listening
Providing easier activities for slower classes
Moving from simpler tasks to more complicated ones
Playing the tape again (non-stop or with pauses)
Breaking long tapescripts into sections
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While-listening stage
What if Ss donot understand the listening tape?
Introduce interview questions
Questions introduced and Ss role-play the interview
Use “jigsaw listening”
Different groups are given bits of the tapescript
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Post-listening stage (p.230)
This stage helps Ss take the information in the
while-stage and to do something meaningful with it:
Two common forms of tasks:
Reaction to the text
Discussion as a response to what Ss have heard
Agee/disagree/believe?
Vocabulary
Collocations/fixed expressions/idioms
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Notes
True-False questions and comprehension
questions
Once is not sufficient
Checking correct answers is very important
Pauses and guides sts to listen to the words and
phrases that provide them the answers.
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Discussion
Tiếng Anh 10
Unit 2: Your body and you
C. Listening
Before you listen/Pre-listening
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
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Audio script
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is a simple, reliable guide to choosing a
healthy diet. Its foundation is daily exercise and weight control, since
these two related elements strongly influence your chances of staying
healthy. The Healthy Eating Pyramid builds from there, showing that
you should eat more foods from the bottom part of the pyramid
(vegetables, whole grains) and fewer from the top (red meat, refined
grains, potatoes, sugary drinks, and salt). When it’s dining time, fill
half your plate with vegetables, the more varied the better, and fruits.
Save a quarter of your plate for whole grains. Fish, poultry, beans, or
nuts, can make up the rest. Healthy oils like olive and canola are
advised in cooking, on salad, and at the table. Complete your meal
with a cup of water, or if you like, tea or coffee with little or no sugar.
Staying active is half of the secret to weight control, the other half is a
healthy diet that meets your calorie needs – so be sure you choose a
plate that is not too large.
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Discussion
Tiếng Anh 10
Unit 3: Music
C. Listening
Before you listen/Pre-listening
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
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Audio script
Anna: What are you listening to, Nam?
Nam: ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ by Abba.
Anna: Can you sing the song?
Nam: Sure. Most Vietnamese teenagers can sing it.
Anna: Really? How nice! What is your favourite kind of music, Nam?
Nam: Inspirational.
Anna: Could you give me the names of some inspirational songs you
like?
Nam: ‘‘Tien Quan Ca’’ by Van Cao, ‘‘Noi Vong Tay Lon’’ by Trinh Cong
Son, ‘‘Circle of Life’’ by Elton John and Tim Rice, and ‘‘We Are the World’’
by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
Anna: Why do you like these songs?
Nam: Because they inspire me, and I can learn lessons about things
such as patriotism, charity, hope, and love.
Anna: Incredible! It seems you know a lot of English songs.
Nam: Thank you. How about you? What are your favourite types of
music?
Anna: Well, like most American teenagers, I like hip-hop or rap.
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