This document discusses teaching listening comprehension. It defines listening comprehension and outlines the roles of teachers and students in listening, understanding, and responding. It identifies factors that affect listening skills, including the material, environment, listener, and speaker. It also describes levels of listening comprehension, requirements for listening practice, and how to design a listening lesson with pre-listening, while listening, and post-listening activities. Finally, it provides examples of listening exercises and ways to test listening comprehension.

1. Teaching Listening
Comprehension
Jaser Mohammad Al-Sha’alani
East Center

2. Definition :
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Procedures and Techniques
Teacher
Students
Listen, Understand and Respond

3. • Foundation
• Accurately, Correctly and
Adequately
• Step, Fluency and Accuracy

4. Teacher’s Role
• Provide opportunities
• Train , listen and understand
speech of native speakers

5. Factors of Listening Skill
• Material
• Environment
• Listener
• Speaker

6. Material
• Appropriate Level
• Carefully designed
• Suitable

7. Environment
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Noise
Interference
Audio/ Visual
Lab

8. • Listener : familiar, topic,
note-taking, summary making
• Speaker :language, clarity,
normal ,

9. Levels of Listening Comprehension
• Elementary: sounds/easy words
• Intermediate: short conversation
• Advanced :outlines/long essays

10. Requirements for Listening Practice
• The ability to :
distinguish sound , intonation ,
grammar , meaning from
context , collocation , written
and spoken .

11. Designation of a Listening
Lesson
• Pre-listening: warm up
• While listening: focus
• Post-listening: evaluate

12. Pre-listening
• Motivation : listening, interesting
• Contextualization : environment
• Preparation: vocabulary and
expressions

13. Pre-listening
• Setting the context:
Who..? Where..? Why..? What..?
• Activating the topic and
vocabulary/ pictures: knowledge
• Predicting title and content

14. While listening
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Number of times
Single words
Checking answers/compare
breathing

15. Post-listening
• Reaction to the text :
agree, disagree, believe,
paraphrase
• Analysis of language :
verbs ,words, collocation

16. Teaching Procedures
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Teaching aids
Basic information
New vocabulary/ questions
Introduction, purpose, Why,
expectation
• Listening

17. Teaching Procedures
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Listening/ notes
Notes / answers
Length / difficulty
Discuss answers
Correction
Check understanding

18. Listening Exercises
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Key-word
Drawing
Short interviews
Dictation
Conversation
Getting information / telephone

19. Testing Listening Comprehension
• Understanding individual words
words / pictures
• Recognizing the meaning of
sentences
• Testing structure
listen , write (grammar )

20. Testing Listening Comprehension
• Short oral passage
information, T/F , multiple- choice
• Long passage
notes, outlines , main points

21. Thank You