TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING LISTENING

1. Techniques For Teaching
Listening
By :
Wenni Angraini, S.Pd,Gr

2. Listening How to Listen Using
Learning Strategies
Listening for students is a teaching, it’s
not a testing

3. How should the learners be
listening to ?
 The learner should be listening to
should be spoken English.

4. Material
 Authentic or Non Authentic Material
 Other Criteria for materials selection
1. Needs analysis
2. Motivation
3. Level of difficulty

5. Instruction
In listening we do the skill in dialogic,
interactional setting and not monologue
and that skills be integrated

6. Learning strategies for
listening
 Concept
learning strategies : Processing,
associating, and categorizing

7. Principles that should underlie all
listening comprehension courses
 an initial
 recognizing linguistic signals, and
extralinguistic and paralinguistic clues
 spoken english and video and not
audio
 should be appropriate
 should be considered

8.  carefully
 natural
 cover different kinds of listening, teach,
not test, and should include training in
hypothesis formation, prediction and
making inferences.
 pre listening should precede the listening
 students should know what they they are
listening for
 post listening should follow the listening

9. types of instruction
 Strategy Instruction
 Strategy based approach

10. Development of a strategy based
listening course
 Setting
 forming Hypothesis
 Predicting
 making inferences

11. An Extended example of strategy
instruction
 need to pay the more attantion to
stressed words
 need to learn to identify the sstressed
word
 they will not “fall behind and will be
able to follow the stressed words

12. academic listening : Marrying top
and bottom
 top : listen to the topic and story Use
the background knowledge
 bottom : sound by sound and word by
word use less background
knowledge

14. designing material to bring top
and bottom together
Predicting
Monitoring
Responding
Clarifying
Inferencing
Evaluating

15. Listening
 Extensive listening
 Intensive listening : using audio
material
Advantages : allow the students to
hear a variety of different
voices
Disadvantages : poor acoustics

16. Who control the recorded material
?
 Students control stop and start
 students have access to different
machines
 Students work in a language
laboratory or listening centre

17. Intensive listening :
‘live’listening
 reading aloud
 story telling
 interviews
 conversation

18. Intensive Listening : the roles of
the teacher
 organiser
 machine operator
 feedback organiser
 prompter

19. Film and Video
Viewing techniques :
 Fast Forward
 Silent viewing ( for language)
 Freeze Frame
 Partial Viewing

20. Listening Techniques
 Pictureless listening (language)
 Pictureless listening (music)
 Pictureless listening (sound effects)
 picture or speech
 subtitles

21. THANK YOU