This document discusses listening skills and strategies for teaching listening in the English language classroom. It contrasts spoken and written language and identifies key differences. It also outlines different types of spoken texts and features of connected speech. The document then describes various listening subskills and provides steps for developing listening lessons, including pre-listening, focus on gist listening, and post-task activities to check comprehension. Overall, the document provides guidance on selecting listening materials and implementing a process for developing students' listening abilities.

1. Anne Peiris
Lecturer of English / Teacher Educator

2. Listening to a speech

3. Listening to News

4. Listening - song

5. Differences between spoken language
and written language
Spoken Language Written Language
1 Less formal Mostly formal
2 Less precise More precise
3 Less sophisticated & eloquent More eloquent &
sophisticated
4 More communicative due to use of body
language
Less communicative
5 Abstract & disappears Stays on page/ does not
disappear
6 Stress & intonation add glamour to the
utterances
Punctuations are used to
show sentences
7 speaker uses body language , gestures and
expressions to support his communication
no visual support
8 Often lacks a logical sequence has a logical sequence
9 Uses general vocabulary & simple grammar Uses exact vocabulary &
precise grammar

6. Listening
Spoken language –
different text types Differences
1.) conversations
2.) stories
3.) announcements
4.) songs
5.) instructions
6.) lectures
7.) advertisements
 Organization of language &
information
 Grammatical patterns
 range of vocabulary
(jargon)
 Interaction patterns
 No. of participants
 Speed of speech
 Accent

7. Features of connected speech –
a.) incomplete
sentences
b.) utterances
c.) hesitations
d.) sudden topic change
e.) simple grammar
f.) general vocabulary
g,) speed of delivery &
accent
h.) word and sentence
stress

8. Sub skills-
 1. listening for gist / global
understanding –
listen to a text and understand the
general meaning of it, without paying
attention to specific details
2. specific information
3. intensive –
listening to focus on how language is
used in a text.
 4. extensive –
Listening to long pieces of text, such
as stories or newspapers.
5. Infer attitude (of the speaker)
 Sometimes, just let them listen and
enjoy without any assessment

9. Listening & the language teaching
classroom
 Step 1 – Pre-teach key words Introductory
Activities
 Step 2 - Pre-listening tasks
 Step 3 – Focus on gist listening to establish context
 Step 4 – Play the recording a second or a third time
 Step 5 – Assessment tasks –
1. completion of tables
2. True/false
3. Ticking the correct answer the list
4. Ordering
5. Information Transfer

10. Learning Material -

11. Steps
 1. Introductory Activities –
- an introduction to the topic
- introduce key vocabulary
- encourage learners activate their knowledge of
the world
2. Main Activities – a series of listening activities based
on different listening sub skills ( general to specific)
3. Post task activities –
activities on how the topic is related to their lives /
their opinions, information transfer activities

12.  Select an interesting listening material
 List the steps you would follow in the teaching-
learning process.