Listening skills teaching

1. HOW TO TEACH
LISTENING

2. CONTENT
 Definition
 Why
teach listening?
 Teacher’s and students’ difficulties
 Top tips
 A successful listening activity
 Listening exercises

3. LISTENING
 Listening
is the ability to identify and
understand what others are saying.
This involves understanding a
speaker's accent or pronunciation,
his grammar and his vocabulary,
and grasping his meaning (Howatt
and Dakin). An able listener is
capable of doing these four things
at the same time.

4. WHY TEACH LISTENING?
 Students
hear different accents
and varieties.
 Listening helps students to
acquire language
subconsciously.
 Listening is a receptive skill.
 Education.
 Mass communication.

5. ‘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.

6. DIFFICULTIES
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Students are trying to understand every word.
Students go back trying to understand what a previous
word meant.
Students just don’t know the most important words.
Students don’t recognize the words they know.
Students have problems with different accents.
Students get tired.
Students have mental block.
Students are distracted.
Students cannot cope without images.
Students have hearing problems.

7.  PRE Tell
LISTENING:
TOP TIPS
your students “ DON’T WORRY”
 Make
sure students know what they are listening for
before you start listening
 Give
questions to check students comprehension
 Check
know
for any words that your students may not

8.  Check
for any words that your students may not
know
 Short
 Stop
listening
the recording

9.  WHILE
LISTENING:
 Try
to play the recording once for overall
comprehension and then for specific details.
 Take
notes ( dates, places, people)
 Repeat
parts
the recording especially in the difficult

10.  POST-LISTENING:
 Compare
their notes in small groups.
 Encourage
discussions and answer questions.
 Write
a summary of the main points and then
compare.
 Make
a list of any new vocabulary.

11. REMEMBER!!!
 Try
to use as many different sources of
listening material as you can:
advertisements, news programs, poetry,
songs, extracts from plays, speeches,
lectures, telephone conversations,
informal dialogues.

12. A SUCCESSFUL LISTENING
ACTIVITY
 Ideas
to make the best listening
activities ever!

13. 1
Reduce distractions and
noise during the
listening segment.

14. 2
 make
sure the equipment produces
acceptable sound quality.

15. 3
 Read
or play the text a total of 2-3 times.

16. 4
 Play
a video clip with the sound off and
ask students to make predictions about it.

17. 5
 Give
students a listening task to do
between classes.

18. LISTENING
EXERCISES

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31. SOURCES
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http://iteslj.org/Articles/Saricoban-Listening.html
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/listenin
g.cfm
http://es.scribd.com/doc/14427811/How-to-TeachEnglish-Jeremy-Harmer
http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.ht
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http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers/articles/whyyour-students-have-problems-with-listeningcomprehension.html