WHAT IS LISTENING?
Nowadays, Young people listen to different kinds of music or watch movies in English and they are learning many words or phrases. Also, we can take this as an advantage in the English language teaching process in our country. As a matter of fact, we as English teachers need to emphasize more in this receptive Skill because the process is kind of complicated because they need understand the difference between listening and hearing. In short, I understand that hearing is the act of delivering sound for example you can receive an applause and it is a sound. Equally important Listening means when you follow an active process where you receive, construct meaning and respond to non-verbal or spoken messages. As shown above listening involves the ability to retain information.
All in all, when we teach to listen we need to explain them the importance of pay attention to intonation and stress in order to understand better the message or information provided by the speaker. In the same way, they need to learn how to identify sounds, key words, vocabulary and the body language that the speaker uses.
In balance, listening skills has subskills for example listening for main ideas or gist details, listening to predict or guess information, understanding vocabulary in context. Additionally, I want to apply some tasks at my classroom because I could notice that listening skill is not well developed for example learners can not answer questions about any lecture. First, I need to find authentic audios to provide them. Second, play it twice or three times depending on the students´ level then ask to complete tables or charts with key words as well as ticking with true or false , putting events in the correct order those tasks are going to reinforce their skill.
Additional information
1. Rost M. (1990). Listening in language learning. London: Longman.
2. Underwood M. (1989). Teaching listening. London: Longman.
3. Omaggio Hadley, A. (1993). Teaching language in context (2nd ed.).
4. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Brooks, N. (1960). Language and language learning: Theory and practice. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World.
Bibliography:
Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.
The TKT course. Module 1,2,3
i agree with you dear Veronica because when we listen carefuly we are retaining information, it does not matter the importance of that information.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you because listening is a receptive skill and we as teachers must encourage our students to listen to music, watch movies and academic videos in English,etc.
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