Listening
According to the TKT book listening is a receptive skill that involves
making sense of the meaningful
sounds of language, so that it requires the ability to understand spoken
language through the use of context,
language and our knowledge of the world. Listening has many different text types such as
conversations, stories, announcements, songs, lectures and advertainments.
Developing listening skill is essential to focus on the speeds of speech and
the features of connected
speech: contracted
forms, linking,
word stress and sentence stress.
The listening skills depends on the purpose or reason we have, to explain this idea, we can listen for gist, global understanding, specific information, detail or infer attitude. Finally, the listening process contains introductory activity in which students focus on key vocabulary on the text, main activity where they develop listening subskills and post-task activity that is checking understanding. A1-Jawi (2010) highlight that listening skill is an important procedure in which listeners will be applied their knowledge on different text types, language strategies, subskills, accents and features of spoken language.
The listening skills depends on the purpose or reason we have, to explain this idea, we can listen for gist, global understanding, specific information, detail or infer attitude. Finally, the listening process contains introductory activity in which students focus on key vocabulary on the text, main activity where they develop listening subskills and post-task activity that is checking understanding. A1-Jawi (2010) highlight that listening skill is an important procedure in which listeners will be applied their knowledge on different text types, language strategies, subskills, accents and features of spoken language.
Developing listening skill in the classroom seems
difficult before to star teaching thinks about these questions: what is the
purpose of the task? what listening skill will be practice? And What language
do students need in order to do the task? In the video you can have a clear
explanation of how to improve your listening skill using the different stages.
References:
Al-Jawi, F. (2010). Teaching the receptive skills. Listening and Reading skills. Retrieved from http://teachertrainingcourse2014.weebly.com/uploads/4/0/8/7/40879903/receptive_skills.pdf.
Target English (2012). Improving Your English Listening Skills [Video]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW0ELPceczs
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