First language learning skill.

1. DEVELOPMENT OF
LANGUAGE SKILLS
LISTENING SKILLS
B. ED. 1ST YEAR

2. What is Language skill?
Language skill is the “ability to comprehend
receptive language and use expressive
language to communicate”.
Languages are generally imparted and
evaluated in terms of the ‘four skills’.
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3. What are the four different language skills?
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Oracy Literacy
Linguacy

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Receptive Productive
Oral
Written

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Listen: To the teacher, use the target language, to a
song, to one another in a pair activity.
Speak: Pronunciation practice, greetings, dialogue
creation or recitation, songs, substitution drills,
oral speed reading, role play.
Read: Instructions, written grammar drills, cards for
playing games, flashcards.
Write: Fill-in-the-blank sheets, sentences that describe
a feeling, sight or experience, a dialogue script,
a journal entry.

6. LISTENING SKILL
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 It is the most important communication skill.
 We spend more time using our listening skills than any
other kind of skill.
 It also take practice like other skills.
 Real listening is an active process.
 Listening requires complete attention.

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“When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.”
~ Ernest Hemingway

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“We have two ears and only one tongue in
order that we may hear more and speak
less.”
~Diogenes Laertius

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Have you had any problems dealing with
listening exercises?
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
LISTENING?
Let’s find out!

10. VEDIO CLIPS
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► A Dream: https://youtu.be/XouWurJC6U8
► To Meet: https://youtu.be/hEQrtrS5L6A
► Persian Students: https://youtu.be/0AlTrFyan2E
► Eid-e Nourooz: https://youtu.be/S6gs2lD2GFU

11. TONGUE TWISTERS
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‫شخصی‬ ‫سخت‬ ‫سعدی‬ ‫شیخ‬
‫دیشب‬ ‫بود‬ ‫سردی‬ ‫شب‬ ‫سخت‬ ،‫پریشب‬ ‫پس‬ ،‫پریشب‬ ‫دیشب‬
‫باشی‬ ‫دوست‬ ‫بشہ‬ ‫دوست‬ ‫و‬ُ‫ت‬ ‫دوست‬ ‫با‬ ‫دارہ‬ ‫دوست‬ ‫کہ‬ ‫من‬ ‫دوست‬ ‫با‬ ‫داری‬ ‫دوست‬
‫و‬ ‫ششہزار‬ ‫شاشش‬ ‫و‬ ‫شاشید‬ ‫شیشگر‬ ،‫شد‬ ‫آشوب‬ ‫شام‬ ‫شھر‬ ‫در‬ ‫شبی‬ ‫دیشب‬ ‫شبی‬ ‫شب‬
‫شد‬ ‫شیشہ‬ ‫وشش‬ ‫ششصد‬

12. LISTENING AS SKILL
 Listening is a prerequisite to other skills of language.
 The activity of listening is not an act of just recording the
speaker’s utterances and repeating them as a tap recorder as
they are.
 It is a process of making meaning out of spoken language.
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Listening Involves:
► Receiving the systematic sounds of the language.
► Processing and constructing sounds into words.
► Giving meaning to the words and getting meaning from
the words received.
► Ability to interpret and comprehend the speaker’s
utterances etc.

14. LISTENING
PROCESS
Hear
Attend
Understand
Respond
Remember
► Hear
► Attend
► Understand
► Respond
► Remember
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15. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS?
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► Language learning depends on learning?
► When you listen to a conversation in Persian, you try to
understand each and every word?
► Listening to songs and radio programs in Persian are two of
the best ways to learn the language?
Because these ways are not boring!

16. LISTENING IS NOT HEARNING
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Hearing and listening both are different things!
Listening
Hearing
‫شنیدن‬ ‫دادن‬ ‫گوش‬

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LISTENING IS NOT HEARNING
According to the Elmhurst College Learning Center:
► Listening and hearing are not same.
► Hearing is the first stage of listening.
► Hearing occurs when our ears pick up sound waves which
are then transported to our brain.
► This stage is our sense of hearing.

18. LISTENING IS NOT HEARNING
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►Listening is a communication process and to be successful, is an active
process.
►In other words, we must be an active participant in this communication
process.
►In active listening, meaning and evaluation of a message must take place
before a listener can respond to a speaker.
►Therefore, the listener is actively working while the speaker is talking.

19. REAL LISTENING
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• It just mean to catch
what the speaker is
saying.
Hearing
• The listener take
what she has heard
and understand it in
her own way.
Understanding
• Thinking about the
what the speaker
has said that
whether it makes
sense.
Judging
Steps

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Types of
Listening
Discriminative
Comprehensive
Evaluative
Attentive
Pretensive
Selective
Intuitive

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Barriers to
Listening
Equate with
hearing
Uninterested
topics
Speaker’s
delivery
External
distraction
Mentally
preparing
Response
Personal bias

22. TIPS TO HELP STUDENDS IN
BECOMING ACTIVE LISTENERS
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► Activate your students’ prior knowledge before any listening
activity in order to predict or anticipate content.
► Assess your students’ background knowledge on the topic and
linguistic content of the text.
► If students are to complete written task during or immediately
after listening, allow them to tread through it before listening.

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► Use questions to focus students’ attention on the elements of text crucial to
comprehension of the whole.
► Use predicting to encourage students to monitor their comprehension as
they listen.
► Remind students to review what they are hearing to see if it makes sense in
the context of the prior knowledge and what they already know of the topic
or events of the passage.
► Use visual aids such as maps, diagrams, pictures or the images on the video
to help contextualize the input.

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