The document discusses teaching listening skills to students and strategies for developing good listening habits. It notes several difficulties students face in listening comprehension, such as distinguishing similar sounds and understanding reduced pronunciation. The document also lists characteristics of good listeners, including strategies they use like focusing attention and using context clues. Finally, it proposes several classroom activities to practice listening like bingo story, selective chart, and sequencing reports that engage students and improve their abilities.

1. Teaching listeningDecember 2010

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3. The how of listening

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5. Difficulties students face1. Hear small differences between English sounds2. Comprehend reduced forms of pronunciation, which are very common in normal spoken English.3. Attend to intonation or emphasis cues. 4. Adjust to regional, class or group accents.5. Understand a great deal of vocabulary when they hear it.6. Understandgrammarstructures.7. Deal with a range of cultural background knowledge.

6. What makes a good listener

7. Strategies good listeners use

8. Roles of the teacher

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