This document outlines strategies for teaching listening skills. It defines listening and explains why it is important. The listening process involves hearing, choosing to focus attention, understanding messages, and responding. There are different types of listening like intensive and extensive listening. Factors like noise, barriers, and memory can affect the listening process. A framework for task-based teaching involves pre-task, during task, and post-task stages. Planning for listening includes pre-listening activities to provide context, activate schemas, establish a purpose for listening, and pre-teach vocabulary. While listening, teachers can have students listen for gist and details and repeat difficult parts. Post-listening involves discussion, comparison of notes, and identifying new vocabulary.

1. CRMEF MOHAMMED V SAFI
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
TEATCHING LISTENING

2. OUTLINE
• What is listening ?
• Why listening is important?
• Steps in the listening process
• types of listening
• Listening skills
• Intensive vs extensive listening
• What kind of listeners are you?
• Factors that may affect listening process
• frame work for task- based teaching
•Planning to teach listening

3. We have two ears and one mouth so
that we can listen twice as much as we
speak. ~ Epictetus

4. What is listening ?
• It is a physical and psychological process that involves choosing to listen,
understanding, and responding to symbolic messages from others
• Listening is considered to be the one of the most important part of the oral
communication.

5. Listening will help you in…
•School
•Relationships
•Social groups & organizations
•Making decisions
•job
Why listening is important?

6. Top –down general understanding ‘’overall view’’
Bottom –up The listener focuses on individual words
or phrases and gains an understanding of the whole passage by
linking these together.

7. Steps in the listening process
hearing
The
reception
of sound.
Not everyone hears the same way.
Some people actually prefer
certain frequencies.
Choosing
The act of
choosing to
focus attention
on the message.
Your own needs,
interests, attitudes,
and knowledge
affects your choice to
pay attention.

8. Steps in the listening process
Understanding
Deciding what the
message means to
you.
Your knowledge, attitudes,
values, beliefs and self-
concept influence your
perception.
Responding
Your reaction to
the message. It
can be emotional
and intellectual.
You first respond
emotionally, then
intellectually. Then you
decide how to respond.

9. •Identifying the topic
•Predicting and guessing
•Listening for general understanding
•Listening for specific or detailed information
•Interpreting a text/making inferences

10. What kind of listener are you?
Passive active Impatient
no participation full participation Interrupted
participation

11. Extensive  listening for pleasure (listening on your own;
because you want to)
Intensive  listening for a purpose (often done with the
teacher’s help; because you have to)

12. Factors that may affect listening process
 Noise – Internal and external distractions
 Examples: outside sounds, distracting thoughts
 Barriers – Blocks listening/understanding.
 Unfamiliar language, anger, attitudes, biases, needs, beliefs, fear,
hearing problems, stress, ignorance, prejudices, tiredness.
 Memory – 3 types
 Immediate – Recalling information for a brief period of time.
 Short term – Recalling information for carrying out a routine or
daily task.
 Long term – Recalling information from past experience.

13. framework for task-based teaching
 It is a comprehensive framework suggested by, jane willis
(1996), it consists of three main stages.
1) Pre-task stage which involes :
 Introducing the topic.
 Introducing the tasks.
 Modling by presenting a picture or a video demonstrating the
task .
 Triggering and re-organizing the existing strutures.

14. framework for task-based teaching
2) During the task phase :
 Students complete tasks depending on the nature f the activity
 This stage involves a lot of practice
3) Post –task phase:
 Teacher reviews what has been done in the during task phase
 Teacher selects language areas to practice based on the needs of
the students
 Activities that provide more exposure to language are presented

15. Planning to teach listening
Pre-listening
1) What students need to know before listening:
 When the teacher says “Listen to this,” and starts playing
the recording, students may have no idea what to expect.
 Without a clear context connected speech often becomes
inaccessible.
 Contextual information-who is speaking? Where is the
conversation taking place?

16. Planning to teach listening
 Information concerning the topic is another
important factor.
 It allows listeners to predict what a speaker will say
and how they will say it.

17. Planning to teach listening
 2) Activating schemata/predicting
 Brainstorming
-From one to many
-Poster display
-Board writing
 Visuals
-Pictures
-Picture story

18. Planning to teach listening
 3) Establishing reasons for listening :
 Teachers need to give students a purpose for listening.
 Make the purpose realistic
 Make the goal achievable
 Get the students involved. If they have invested time, effort
and thought in the material, they are more likely to listen
successfully.

19. Planning to teach listening
 4) Pre-Teaching Vocabulary:
 If the teacher thinks that there are a number of words
that will be unknown to the students, and that these
words are essential to the meaning of the passage,
probably better to pre-teach.
 Pre-teach vocabulary may give students some
confidence in listening to the topic

20. Planning to teach listening
 5) Things to avoid during the pre-listening stage
 Don’t let the pre-listening stage drag on. Make it short
and fact paced.
 Don’t give away too much information to the students.
 Pre-listening activities must be entirely relevant to
what the students will hear.

21. Planning to teach listening
While –listening
 1) Listening for gist
 Gist = main idea
 Before any discussion is developed, the students have to
grasp the overall communicative intention of the speaker
 Examples of gist questions:
 What problems are they discussing?
 What does the speaker think of the topic?
 Look at the pictures. Who are the speakers talking about?

22. Planning to teach listening
 2) Listening for details
Try to play the recording once for overall comprehension
and then for specific details.
Take notes ( dates, places, people)
 Repeat the recording especially in the difficult parts
 Times, dates, numbers
 Spot the difference

23. Planning to teach listening
Post-listening
 Compare their notes in small groups.
 Encourage debates and answer questions.
 Write a summary of the main points and then
compare.
 Make a list of any new vocabulary.

24. Thank you for your
attention