the role of questions in the teaching lisening

1. THE ROLE OF QUESTIONS IN THE
TEACHING OF LISTENING
Presented by:
Sadaf Alam

2. INTRODUCTION
In this chapter we will briefly examine the use of questions in
developing listening skills
➢Importance of questions
➢To develop extensive listening skills
➢To check comprehensions
➢To develop effective listening

3. TYPES OF QUESTIONS
1. Display versus Referential
2. Focused versus Open
3. Pre -, while & post Listening Questions.
4. First Language versus second Language
5. Form versus Function
6. Visual Supported vs Non visual Supported
7. Individual versus group

5. FOCUSED VERSUS OPEN
Focused questions:
In some situation , the teacher will help learners to focus on
the details of listening text. Here , the questioning is focused
.for example:
Goal : Discrimination between /p/ and /b/,
✓Pair task
✓General Questions
✓Multiple answer questions

6. FOCUSED QUESTIONS:
Advantages
• help learners focus on discrete item
processing.
• alert learners to possible problem in
pronunciation.
• give learners a sense of
achievement.
• help learners to focus attention on
form.
Disadvantages
• need to be prepared in advanced.
• sometimes over used.
• “play – it – again saim” syndrome.
• They do not usually portray how we
listen in our L1.Unless in special
circumstances.

7. FOCUSED VERSUS OPEN
Open questions:
Open listening is likely to follow when a teacher asks learners
to try to grasp over all picture of text. For example:
The teacher says: Listen to how Jerry talks about his holiday.
✓Why do you think he enjoyed it so much?
✓What was the point of interest?
✓Who was your personal experience in holidays?
Focused listening strategy, specific word from text,
more then one correct answers.

9. OPEN QUESTIONS:
Advantages
• easy for the teacher to plan.
• can be used at any part of the
listening activity.
• required more effort on the part of
the learners.
• allow learners to take some control
of their leaning.
Disadvantages
• often do not have any correct
answer.
• require creative thinking.
• may result in no answer from shy
learners.
• might slow the pace of the lesson.

10. CONCLUSION
✓Both are used in conjunction with an oral text
✓More focus questions in level activities.
✓More open questions in higher level activities.
✓Focused questions Help learners to focus on discrete items.
✓Open questions required creative thinking.
✓Focus questions some times over used.
✓Open questions may result in no answer.