Strategies

How to Teach
Listening for
Young
Learners

INDAH NURHIDAYATI
NUGROHO ANGGARA PUTRA
 Questions to Ponder
1. Why do we need to develop young learners’ Listening skills
firstly?

2. What aspects of difficulty for young learner to listen?

3. According to your background knowledge, what is the

appropriate activity to teach Listening for young learners? Give
your reasons.

4. Infer why TPR (Total Physical Response) approach is

appropriate for YL?
The reason why we need to develop
young learners’ listening skills firstly

Because young
learners often cannot
read and write at all
yet, or not with much
confidence. So that YL
need to start with
plenty of listening.
Quotation

“If someone is giving you a message or

opinion, then of course you have to be able
to understand it in order to respond”
(Brewster, Ellis, Girard, 2002)

“Children need purposes and intentions

which they can recognize and respond to
with others” (Donaldson, 1978)
 Aspects of difficulty for young learner to
listen

1. The type and length of the text are

difficult for children to listen

2. Familiarity of the person who they are

listening to
 Quotation

– Yousif (2006) mentions more about

physiological barriers in listening, the
importance of speech rate in listening and
giving breaks during a long listening activity
The Topic The World
Sound Grammar
General Background
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 Quotation

Brewster, Ellis, and Girard caution (2002) that

-Listen & Do
- Listen &
asking children to “listen and remember” can
Draw make them anxious, places a great strain on their
- Listen & memory and tends not to develop listening skills
Color
TPR (Total Physical Response) approach

TPR links learning to

physical actions and
ensures that learners will
hear a lot of natural
English in meaningful
contexts without having
to respond verbally
The instruction in the teacher’s book :

– The teacher does the actions as the cassette is

played
– Pupils join in as they become confident
– Pupils point to pictures in the book as they hear the
instructions
– Pupils do the actions and join in with the words if
they want
Quotation
(Zone Proximal Development)
– Learning was ahead of developmental and
for development to occur, interaction with
adults or peers who are more knowledgeble
is needed

(vygotsky, 1978)