Unit 7 Listening

LISTENING

Listening is the capacity to understand and analyze what people are saying. It involves understanding the speaker's pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary  (Saricoban A., 1999). In this unit, I learned lot of things that are related to listening. For example, listening involves understanding spoken language. To understand it we should deal with all the features that it has. Spoken language has different text types such as conversations, stories, etc. that have different ways of organizing language and information. Another important part in the listening is that we need to understand different speeds of speech and accents because not all people speak in the same way. As we know, listening has subskills as reading. We are going to use these subskills according to the kind of information we need to listen for. These listening subskills are: listening for gist, global understanding, specific information, infer attitude, intensive and extensive listening.

There are many ways of teaching listening to students. We can use different materials such as music, videos, movies. In order to teach listening we can follow three stages: Pre-listening:  we show pictures about the listening to students and ask them to talk about that pictures. During-listening: students are going to listening to an audio and we ask them to take notes about it. Post-listening: in this stage, we can ask some question related to the audio. The students can use their notes to answer it.

VIDEO: It is about how to active the listening task 

SOURCES:

Saricoban A. (1999). The Teaching of Listening. The internet TESL Journal , 4.

Spratt M., Pulverness A. & Willians M. (2011). The TKT course.Modules 1,2,3. United Kingdom: Cambridge university Press.

YouTube. (2018). Teaching Listening Actively. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e16mymdji68 [Accessed 22 Apr. 2018].