Teaching Listening: Prior Knowledge and Speaking Tasks

Teaching Listening

Activation of prior knowledge for improved listening comprehension

Systematic presentation of listening for main ideas, listening for details, and listening and making inferences

Presentation of extensive listening tasks leading to personalized speaking

Stimulating integration of real-world cultural information for students to know and share

listening courses must make use of students’ prior knowledge in order to improve listening comprehension.

We listen in different ways based on our purpose. Having a purpose helps us listen more effectively.

Teachers know that keeping students’ interest is key to learning

teachers can build on listening tasks to provide speaking practice