Solutions to difficulties for secondary school students in listening skill

Solutions to difficulties for secondary school students in listening skill 1 PROJECT TITLE ( Name of the initiative experience) SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULTIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL I INTRODUCTION ( The reasons for the choice of the subject ) Nowadays, English is becoming more and more important, it is known as a bridge that helps people in different countries around the world get closer together Moreover, thanks to English, people had obtained significant progress in many s[.]

PROJECT TITLE ( Name of the initiative experience)

SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULTIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL

I INTRODUCTION ( The reasons for the choice of the subject )

Nowadays, English is becoming more and more important, it is known as a bridge that helps people in different countries around the world get closer together Moreover, thanks to English, people had obtained significant progress in many spheres Learning English is important and necessary than ever

Recognizing the importance of learning English, the Ministry of Education

and Training ( MOET) has decided English is one of the key subjects in all levels

of education in the education system for many recent years English is increasingly crowded social strata in interest The more students are interested in English, the more wishing to study this subject in-depth they do

In fact, students in general and students in secondary schools in particular face many issues when listening English Why students find it difficult to obtain the knowledge in a listening lesson? The reason why students find preparing the new listening lesson before learning much more difficult than that of other skills ? Beside that Teachers also face to many difficulties during the time teaching listening lesson

Thus, during the years teaching the renewed curriculum textbooks and the new English teaching program, I myself taught a lot of listening lessons in textbooks for grades 8 and 9 Thanks to myself experience , I take a research so as

to improve the composing and teaching listening skill in class This is done throughout many listening periods in grade 8 and 9 with positive results, create more excitement for the students about their listening lessons in class

Therefore, I boldly put some experience in " SOLUTION TO

DIFFICULTIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL " as an Initiative experience

II- CONTENT ( THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM )

A RATIONALE

We know that listening skill is the collecting skill (gathering information skill) - students listen for collecting the main idea or getting paciffic information; they listen to answer the questions or decide True or false, to summarize a passage, ect that is the first step preparing for understanding language for the purpose of

communication.Therefore every teacher of English should be aware of these in order to have the right attitude when carrying out a listening lesson Once more important solution is to help Ss get some techniques for listening with high efficiency

B REAL STATE OF THE PROBLEM

During the years of teaching English in Hoang Ngoc secondary school, I've found that secondary school students enjoyed, especially the selected students as talent ones are very interested in English courses More particularly, in recent years education and training steering Thanh Hoa has chosen English (one of the three subjects ) in the entrance examination to Grade 10 – The senior high school In recent years the students in grades 6, 7 almost much more enjoy this course than some students in grades 8.9 Students in grades 6, 7 boldly speak and write English better, boldly stated than demonstrated in class 6.7 graders are innocent, more innocent they should not be afraid of speaking, reading, writing and especially listening English is a difficult subject for students, so if there is no proper method

of learning at the beginning, the teacher is not timely detected with help,which will result in the students’ "root loss" And that was the cause of some students in grades 8, 9 are afraid of listening, this is also one of the causes of low quality English courses at school Therefore, I once more try to help them realize that :

"Getting mistakes is something very normal and fault is a useful and healthy problem Thanks to the errors, we can find the right and the accuration and with the exact which leads to the learning process The more mistakes learners make the more right words they gain The more something is true, then the more learning takes place We often learn more from our mistakes than from success " I always give them the feeling of closeness and comfort, nature while teaching a listening lesson One method to do this is to explore, to learn from real experience basing on the key words or the brainstorming from the listening topics.One rule for listening

is collecting information for understanding a little to a little

* Some surveys conducted before carrying out the subject:

Checking listening skill : Unit 4 (English 9) Listen

- I focus on solutions to difficulties in listening

Class Number of students involved Number of students are right

C SOME SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULTIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL

I realize that we need to take the following steps to carry out teaching to help students listen easily and more effectively in the process of practicing listening skill.

I Pre – listening : I follow the two following steps:

1 The 1 st Step :

1.1 Pre – teach Vocabulary, that relate to the listening text ( follow the process of teaching vocabulary )

1.2 Check up the understanding of Ss by using the suitable game

2 The 2 nd step:

2.1 Require Ss arrange the words they will hear in the order they appear in the listening

2.2 Delivery good learning cards for students who guess the words in the

correct order

II While – listening : I follow the two following steps:

1.The 1 st Step :

Teacher ask Ss to listen to the listening text 1-2 times to recheck the order of words in the part above

ADVANTAGES OF THESE STEPS

+ Ss have more time to remember and understand the words they

have just learnt

+ Help students focus on listening more easily

+ All Ss: EXCELLENT - GOOD - FARE - POOR can do this It

is easy to create exciting tasks for them

2 The 2 nd step:

2.1 Let Ss guess the right or wrong sentences

2.2 Ss have done this job before listening the text for the third and fourth time

Therefore, students can perform the main requirements of the listening more conveniently For example, the listening texts - English textbook - grade 9

1 Select the paintings

2 Decide True or false, then correct the wrong statements

3 Fill in the missing words

4 Answer the questions

III Post – listening :

Ask Ss to answer the questions or sum up

1 Give some questions and ask Ss to answer them, the questions should

be simple (or Yes / No questions) and in the logic system related to the listening text

Give Ss a short summary with gaps (from 4 to10 gaps), ask Ss to fill the missing words and then read aloud

ADVANTAGES OF THESE STEPS

+ Ss have more chance to study the listening text

+ Raising the level and requirements of the listening, this section

requires students’ higher thinking

+ Inculcate the listening content to conduct the major step While -

listening.

EXAMPLE : Solutions to difficulties in listening skill

Unit 4 (English 9) - Listen

A Objective :

By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to identify the correct information

by listening and develop their listening skill

B.Teaching aids : Cards , posters

C Procedure :

I Warm up : * INFORMATION TRANSMITTING :

+ Divide the class into 4 teams Choose 4 volunteers from each team and the volunteers stand in 4 lines

+ T shows the first student (in each line) a sentence

+ He or she whispers the sentence to the next person in his / her line

+ The second student whispers to the third and so on

+ The last student go to the BB to write the sentence If it is the same as the sentence the teacher shows , that team wins the match

 Suggested sentences :

 I want to improve my writing and listening skill

 English is an interesting language and it's very useful

 You should speak English with your friends

 You should learn by heart all the new words and texts

II Pre – listening :

1 Ordering these words : Poster - Individual - hand out

 Set the scene: We will listen the conversation between Kate and Nga

"Nga is talking to Kate about her studying English" Before listening the conversation , you can predict these words in the correct order according to the content of the listening

 Ordering :

Improve / listening / language / terrible / job / favorite / can’t understand / bank / university / problem

2 Feedback the ordering words :

 T asks Ss to listen to the tape once or twice and correct their predict

 Answer Key :

job - bank - university - improve - listening - can’t understand - terrible - problem - language - favorite

3 True / False prediction : Poster - groups of 4 - hand out

 T has Ss read the statements on poster and predict which statements

are True and which are False

 True / False statements : * Run through the statements

a Nga's studying English for her work

b She learned English at The Brighton Language Center - UK

c She works for an International bank in Hanoi

d Her listening is excellent

e She needs to improve her speaking

f She hopes she can talk to people from all over the world and understand her favorite English songs

 Feedback 1 : Three groups go to the BB to write their prediction

III While – listening :

1 Feedback 2 :

 Ask students to listen to the tape twice and check their prediction

 Answer Key : T F T F F T

2 Correction the false statements :

 T asks Ss to listen to the tape one more and correct the false

statements

 Answer Key :

b She learns English at school and university

d Her listening is terrible

e She wants to improve her writing

3 Answer the questions: * LUCKY SPORTS : 2 teams Poster

 T let Ss listen to the tape again then practice answer the questions in pairs

a Is Nga studying English in Viet Nam or in England?

b Why is she studying English there ?

c Did she learn English at school and university?

d What does she want to improve ? Why ?

e What does Nga think about English ?

 LUCKY SPORTS : poster

4 Answer Key :

Volleyball Bowling Soccer Basketball Baseball Racing Tennis Skiing

a in England

b for her work

c Yes , she did

d She wants to improve her writing because sometimes she has to write letters in English

e It’s an interesting language and it’s very useful

5 Feedback the answers : * Six pairs of students ask and answer the

questions again

IV Post – listening : * Summary the conversation : Speaking

 T has Ss sum up the dialolgue with the help of the cues in T / F and the questions

 They can do like this :

V At home :

 Write the summary again in your notebooks

Nga is studying English for her work in London She learned English

at school and university She works for an International Bank in HN She

needs to improve her writing because sometimes she has to write letters in

English Her listening is terrible so she can’t understand them She hopes

she can talk to people from all over the world , and understand her

favorite English songs

Tape transcript :

Host : Kate , can I introduce you to Nga ? She is studying English here in London

Kate : Hello, pleased to meet you

Nga : Pleased to meet you , too

Kate : Where are you from ?

Nga : I’m from Viet Nam

Kate : Why are you studying English here ?

Nga : I need it for my job

Kate : Really ? So , What do you do ?

Nga : I work for a bank , an international bank in Hanoi

Kate : Oh , I see Did you learn English at school ?

Nga : Yes , and at university , too but I’ve forget – forget

Kate : Forgotten

Nga : Yes, of course I’ve forgotten a lot of it I want to improve my

writing skills

You know – sometimes I have to write letters in English

Kate : What about listening , Nga ?

Nga It’s terrible This is my biggest problem People talk very quickly and I can’t

understand them

Kate : Do you like studying English ?

Nga : Oh , yes It’s an interesting language and it’s very useful ; and I can talk to

people from all over the word … and I can understand the words

of my favorite

songs , too

Kate : Well That’s very good Good luck to you , Nga

 Surveys after carrying out the subject

The following table is the result of the surveys after carrying out the subject:

Class Number of

students involved

Numbers of students are right

9A 15 13 (86,7%) 9B 13 10 (76,9%)

III CONCLUSIONS AND LEARNED LESSONS.

During my teaching period, I have obtained some precious experience on

SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULTIES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL below :

When preparing the Pre-listening ; while - listening and post - listening:

* Teachers should take notes - Ss’ ideas on the board ( brainstorming)

* There are clear instructions which are easy to understand

* Teachers should have the right positive consistent attitude with the students who are both good at and bad at listening, not too focus on the correction but encourage Ss to guess more, especially avoid the situation of "being worried" while listening

* Create a joyful atmosphere, and new inspiration for students in learning, help students get comfort if they misunderstand when using the language; invole Ss to the key words related to the listening topic so as to Ss can understand the text as much as possible

* Help students get accuration through the errors (Learning English through the errors) so that the English capacity of students becomes better and better

* The above is just a small experience of SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULTIES

FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LISTENING SKILL that I myself can draw in the past few years to teach secondary school students in Hoang

Ngoc However, the effect of teaching listening skill will mostly depend on the students’ ability of language

I proposed this subject to help the students overcome and limit common difficulties thanks to these small skills mentioned above, so my project can not avoid the limitations I hope my colleagues will consult, consider and find out more effective solutions to improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching listening skill for junior high students

IV REQUESTS:

I deeply hope that the superiors will be more interested in this subject

because of its effects in this age of information explosion today I look forward to attending more teaching activities so as to have more chance to access to new methods Every secondary school should compose the test including listening section in order to help students improve their listening skill more and more perfectly Create conditions with audiovisual equipment for training students, students have more opportunities to hear and learn from the native speakers’ pronunciation

I sincerely thank you !

- Textbook - English 9

- Document training for secondary school teachers regularly stage 2015-2020

- Reference books for teaching listening skill (Publisher education - Ministry of Education and Training ).

- Website GLOBAL EDUCATION.