This document outlines a module for developing listening skills. It discusses listening comprehension in real life versus the classroom. It also describes the Russian educational standards for listening which focus on listening for the main idea, details, and specific information. A three-phase framework is presented for teaching listening: pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening stages. A variety of activities are suggested to practice different listening skills like identifying, choosing, matching, and note-taking. The document stresses that classroom listening training should mimic real-life listening situations.

1. Developing
listening
skills
module. Davydova T.D.
2013

2. Content area
• 1. What is comprehension?
• 1.1 Listening in real life
• 1.2 Listening in the classroom
• 2. Teaching to listen
• 2.1 Listening standards
• 2.2 Activities for teaching to listen
• 3. Designing materials for teaching to listen
• 3.1 Three - phase framework
• 3.2 Practice

3. What is Listening Comprehension?
•1. In the real world
We listen to:
lectures, conversations, public announcement, TV
programmes, instructions, sounds of nature and industry,
songs
Reasons for listening: information
instructions
evaluation
pleasure
support and empathy
to exchange
to follow
to get
To get
to express

4. Consolidation
• Listening – is an act of interpreting
speech that one receives through ears.
• Hearing – is an act of receiving the
language through ears without
interpretation.
• Listening is a communicative skill to
get the meaning of what we hear.

5. What is Listening Comprehension?
• 2. Listening in the classroom
We listen to:
poems, songs, texts, conversations, etc.
Reasons for listening: because the teacher tells us;
because we have to do the task.

6. Listening Standards
• What is the Russian Educational
Standard for listening in the English
language?
The main aims:
1. Listening for main idea
2. Listening for details
3. Listening for specific information

7. Activities for Teaching to Listen
• To identify…
• To choose …
• To check up…
• To complete…
• To take notes…
• To match…
(meanings and words)
(the right answer)
(mistakes)
( the sentence)
( of the facts)
(pictures with sentences)

8. Three – phase Framework
• Pre – listening
stage
• While – listening
stage
• Post – listening
stage
После прослушивания
До прослушивания
Прослушивание

9. Consolidation
• Classroom Listening is not real –
life listening. Training in listening
comprehension should give the
students practice in coping with at
least some of the features of real –
life situations.

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