listening skills week 2

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Listening skills

Week 2

9 13 January 2012


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Definition and Concept

Definition: The ability to discern various

sounds, including music, rhythm, and pitch,

as well as the intonation of spoken language.

Concept:


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Listening Is With The Mind

Hearing With The Senses

Listening Is Conscious. An Active Process OfEliciting Information

Ideas, Attitudes And Emotions

Interpersonal, Oral Exchange


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Discussion: What are the problems

in teaching and learning English?

Teaching Learning


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Listening Misconception

Listening and hearing are the same Good readers are good listeners Smarter people are better listeners Listening improves with age Learning not to listen Thinking about what we are going to say rather than

listening to a speaker Talking when we should be listening Hearing what we expect to hear rather than what is

actually said Not paying attention

( preoccupation, prejudice, self-centeredness, stero-type)

Listening skills are difficult to learn


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Focusing on the message

Hearing

Comprehending and interpreting

Analyzing and evaluating

Responding

Remembering

Stages of

Listeningprocess


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Types of Listening

Informative Listening Vocabulary Concentration Memory

Relationship Listening Attending Supporting Empathizing

Appreciative Listening Presentation Perception Previous experience


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Types of Listening

Critical Listening Ethos

Logos

Pathos

Discriminative Listening Hearing Ability

Awareness of Sound Structure

Integration of non-verbal cues


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Why we listen?

Maintain good social relations

Academic purposes

Obtaining information

necessary for day-to-day

living

Entertainment


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Aims of Teaching Listening in

Malaysian Schools

Listen to information with understanding and

precision.

Sub-skills from basic level of sound, word and

phrase recognition to whole text.

Use of various text types

Respond to the information and messages

(non-verbal cues)


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Approaches in Teaching Listening

1. Auditory Discrimination

- Distinguish specific sounds from a

background of different sounds

- Recognizing the meaning of sound signals

heard both at word level and in connected

speech.

- Ie: /k/, /g/, /t/, /b/, /l/


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Examples:

He is in the car

He is in the car

He is in the car

He is in the car

He is in the car


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Selection of Listening Materials

1. Speakers

- Number of speakers

- Variety of English

- Speed of delivery

2. Type of text

- Amount of planning, text, support, and level

3. Content of text

- relevance, difficulty of arguments,

redundancy, and unfamiliar content.


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Selection of Listening Materials

4. Listeners

- Attention, interest, previous knowledge

5. Situation- Amount of background noise, chances for

listening to the input.

6. Task- Difficulty of task


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Discussion

What are your principles of teaching

listening?


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Guidelines/ Principles for Teaching

Listening

1. Ensure ppls understand what they have to do

2. Provide a context for listening

3. Ppls listen to the same listening input4. Set straightforward questions to help them

grasp the overall text

5. Carry out a lot of pre-listening6. Ask questions appropriate for their level of

proficiency

7. Use formats the require minimum writing


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Guidelines/ Principles for Teaching

Listening

8. Arrange the questions in sequence

9. Do not ask questions that are packed on the

tape

10.Give chance for ppls to read through

questions before they listen

11.Design questions that require HOTS

12.Decide the number of times for listening

input

13.Encourage ppls to be confidence ignore bits


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Planning a Listening Lesson

Pre Listening

While Listening

Post - Listening


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Pre Listening stage

1.Arouse your ppls interest

2.Make ppls actively aware of the informationand experiences

3.Carry out various activities to help them

learn/acquire the target language

4.Gives purpose for them to listen


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Common types of activities

conducted during the stage

1. Informal teacher talk and class discussion

2. Look at pictures and talk about them

3. Make list of possibilities/ suggestions4. Read related text

5. Read through the questions

6. Predict outcomes7. Preview the language


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While Listening Stage

Centre of focus of the lesson

Contain teaching points May contain one activity or it may contain a

number ofrelated or stepped activities


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Activities for While Listening Stage

a) MCQ

b) True/ false questionsc) Spotting mistakes


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Post-Listening stage

Ppls maybe given tasks that are spin-offs of

the main activity.

Relates their own views on the subject


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Activities for Post-Listening Stage

Extend the lists given in main activities

Extend notes into full-fledged writtenassignments/ speech

Use the information from listening activity


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Tutorial week 2

1. Find suitable websites which you can use as a

resource for your teaching and learning

2. Present and share the materials that you

found in the websites


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ISL week 2

Find information on the auditory receptive

skills problems and list it in the form of

graphic organisers:

1. Auditory discrimination

2. Auditory figure ground

3. Auditory blending

4. Auditory blending5. Auditory closure

6. Auditory association

7. Auditory sequencing


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Planning a lesson

Presentation 11 January 2012

Pre-Listening Activity

Design 1 suitable activity to teach pre-listening

activity for your Year 3 pupils.


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Pre-listening prompt questions

1. What can you see in the picture?

2. How many animals are there in the picture?

3. Name the animals in the picture?4. Which animal you like most?

5. Which animal you scared most?

6. If you happen to meet with the animal thatyou scared most, what will you do?


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Worksheet 1 (sample)

1. Why do the elephant felt unhappy with the

tiger?

2. The tiger went to the ________ to find some

food for the elephant.

A. jungle C. hut

B. river D. mountain

3. The tiger was frustrated with the elephantsattitude.

True

False


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