Teaching Speaking

Teaching Listening

Why is it important?

Challenges

Pre-listening

While listening

Post-listening

Conclusion

Active listening promotes mindful thinking, which can reduce anxiety and depression in students. It also helps students build relationships because the more conversations you have, the more likely your peers will perceive you as open and interested.

Listening involves both interpersonal and interpretive forms of communication. It requires the listener to play a participating role in a face-to-face conversation or a non-participating role by listening to others or being present. Listening includes different languages. In addition to listening to lectures and presentations in academic and formal settings, students are required to share or listen to communications that involve different levels of spoken language.

Listening comprehension includes 'modified' and 'simplified' forms of language: in addition to the vocabulary and structure of the language, listeners must learn to understand the language in simplified forms (eg I'm leaving, one second). Listening involves a variable speed of delivery: Unlike text reading, which is controlled by the learner, text listening constantly moves at a variable speed that is generally out of the listener's control.

Pre-listening activities are what students do to prepare to listen before listening activities. These activities serve a number of purposes, including pre-teaching or activating vocabulary, predicting content, generating interest, and assessing task comprehension.

While listening tasks consist of a series of activities that students perform while listening to a passage to demonstrate their understanding of what they have heard.

The post-listening phase includes all exercises performed after listening to the text. Some of these activities may be extensions of the activities carried out before and during the listening session, while others may be completely unrelated and a completely separate part of the listening session.

Listening is very important since, apart from creating empathy, it familiarizes students with a new context in another language. It can also be a great tool in language learning and its results are ideal for teaching and learning.