Workshop Listening

Hertiki Marsaid, S.Pd

Listening is Fun

Language Skills

ListeningSpeakingReading Writing

What is Listening?

Listening is the ability to understand what others are sayingIt involves understanding the accent, grammar, vocabulary, and grasping the meaning

What are some listening problems?

The Message The SpeakerThe ListenerThe Physical Setting

The Message: ContentThe Speaker: Redundancy The Listener: Lack of knowledge Physical Setting: Noisea. Background noises on the recordingb Background noises on the environment

What are the solutions?The Message:1. Grade listening materials according to the students’ level and provide appropriate materials2. Design task-oriented exercises3. Provide students with different kinds of input, such as films, TV plays, English songs, daily conversation, etc4. Find visual aids or draw pictures related with the topic

The Speaker:1. Give more practice to the students2. Make students aware of different native- speaker accents3. Select short and simple listening

materials for lower-level students and complicated authentic materials for advanced learners

The Listener:1. Provide background knowledge and linguistic knowledge2. Help students develop the skills of listening by providing varied tasks and exercises at different levels with different focuses

Stages of a Listening LessonPre-listening:

It helps students prepare to listen

While-listening:

It helps to focus on the listening text and guide the development of their understanding of it

Post-listening:

It helps students integrate what they have learnt from the text into their existing knowledge

Activities in Listening Class

Chart-fillingEnglish SongsGames

Chart-fillingMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Weekends

8:00 get up get up get up get up get up

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Songs

Fill in the blanksScrambled Lyrics

Games

WhispersShouting Games

Whispers

Split the class into two or more teamsSplit the class into two or more teams

Whisper a sentence into the ears of Whisper a sentence into the ears of the first students in each rowthe first students in each row

They whisper the word into the next They whisper the word into the next student’s ear in their row until the student’s ear in their row until the whisper gets to the last student in whisper gets to the last student in the rowthe row

The last student in the row has The last student in the row has to say out the sentenceto say out the sentence

The team or teams that get the The team or teams that get the right sentence scores a pointright sentence scores a point

Shouting GameShouting Game

Prepare several sentencesPrepare several sentences

Divide the students into two groupsDivide the students into two groups

Ask one of the members from each Ask one of the members from each group to go in front of the class to writegroup to go in front of the class to write

The two students should face the board, The two students should face the board, they have to listen carefully and writethey have to listen carefully and write

The winner is the one who can finish The winner is the one who can finish firstfirst

Conclusion

Some teachers think that listening is the easiest skill to teach, whereas most students think it is the most difficult to improve

We must find out how listening skill can be improved and what activities are useful in teaching listening