Unit 7
Listening
"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention." (Rachel Naomi Remen)
This unit is about listening one of the four language skills which is a receptive skill. Listening
involve making sense of the meaningful
sounds of language. Furthermore, listening involves learning to be able to
understand a range of relevant
text types, understand different speed of speech and different accents. It means
that people speak slow or fast, with more and few pauses. So, for that
listening has different subskills
which I use depending on the reason. These are listen for gist, specific information, detail, listening extensively and listening intensively.
In order to apply listening in the classroom, I can
give students the opportunity to listen and practice to listen to many sources
like for example songs, videos, visitor’s conversation, etc because those kind
of exercises help them to love listening. Also, coursebooks are authentic material foe students
because they develop strategies for dealing real language. Finally, I as
teacher gives students to listen to a story, a video, or a conversation because
those are relaxed ways which they enjoy listening to a foreign language. So, I as
teacher must motivate student to listen to because it helps them a lot in their
lives.
Here you have a link to a PPPresentation that helps you
to know some strategies for listening.
References:
- “Listening in a foreign language” by Ana Maria Schwartz, in Modules for the professional preparation of teaching assistants in foreign languages (Grace Stovall Burkart, ed.; Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1998)
- Adler, R., Rosenfeld, L. and Proctor, R. (2001)
Find more at: http://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/listening-skills.html#ixzz3YkQMw4R5
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