Teaching Listening

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Teaching Listening

A) Extensive and intensive listening

• Students can improve their listening skills by extensive and intensive listening materials and procedures.

• With extensive listening, it will usually take place outside the classroom. It means that it happens by the students choices of what they are going to listen to.

• It has to be according to their level.

• Teachers can do comprehension activities based on tapes in order to check how much students can understand.

○ Taped material

Advantages:

1.- Students can hear different voices and accents from other people.

2.- Taped material is extremely portable, readily available and cheap.

Disadvantages

1.- The acoustics.

2.- The speed.

○ Live stream

• Reading aloud: This allows students to hear a clear spoken version of written text.

• Story-telling: Students can be asked to predict what is coming.

• Interviews: Students can ask questions.

• Conversations: Students can watch the interactions.

○ The roles of the teacher

• Organiser: Teachers need to tell students what the listening purpose ir.

• Machine operator: Theacher must know everything about their material.

• Feddback organiser: In order to know students' comprehension.

• Prompter: A way to prove the students.

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B) Listening lessons sequences

• The listening could be in different parts of the class.

• Teachers have to be flexible.

• It depends on students' level and the skills that the teachers want to focus on.

C) The sound of music

• Listening to music is a good way in which students can think and express themselves or express their emotions (how they feel by listen to music).

• It is a powerful stimulus for studentws engagement precisely because it allows them to use their brains in order to analyse what they are listening to.