Teaching Listening

Teaching Listening

Listening has an important place in learning as it is one of the four major skills in language acquisition.So it is the most important communication skill.

In ESL teaching and learning, “listening” is a skill that involves more than just hearing.

listening presents a challenge for a variety of reasons:

It involves academic and formal settings and various levels of colloquialism.

It involves the interpersonal and interpretive modes of communication.

Teaching listening is delimited in three main steps:

While Listening: refers to understanding the very general idea(s) or gist of the listening followed by the intenve listening

It is very important to encourage the students to listen to a story or watch the video again, as soon as possible after the first time.

Inside or outside the classroo, it is also important to keep doing this later at greater intervals. With every repeat, old information will be reinforced and new things will be learnt, too!

Learning to comprehend reduced forms of the language

It involves variable rates of delivery, such as listening text that is constantly moving and at variable speeds that often cannot be controlled by the listener.

Post-Listening: represents a follow up to the listening activity and aims to utilize the knowledge gained from listening for the development of other skills such as speaking or writing

Pre-Listening: activate background knowledge and clarify expectations and assumptions about the text and vocabulary