(SKKN 2022) Some methods to improve the efficiency of teaching listening skill in grade 8 at Tan Son Secondary school.

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAININGTHANH HOA COMMITEE DIVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE SOME METHODS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING LISTENING SKI

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

THANH HOA COMMITEE DIVISION OF EDUCATION AND

TRAINING

INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE

SOME METHODS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF

TEACHING LISTENING SKILL IN GRADE 8

AT TAN SON SECONDARY SCHOOL

Writer: Nguyen Thi Thao Position: Teacher

Working unit: Tan Son secondary school Innovative experience belongs to the subject: English

THANH HOA, YEAR 2022

Table of Contents

1 - THE OPENING

1.1 -The reasons for topic :

1.2 - Research purpose:

1.3 -Research objects:

1.4 - Research methods:

1.5 - The innovation of experience

2 - THE CONTENT OF THE INNOVATIVE

EXPERIENCE

2.1 – Rationale

2.2- The reality of problem:

2.3- Solutions and implements:

1.Solutions

2.Implements

2.4 – The results achievements after application of

themes

3 - CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

3.1 - Conclusions

3.2 - Recommendations.

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1 THE OPENING 1.1.The reasons for topic:

Nowaday, the economy of the countries in the world is growing thepolitics of cultural exchange, between the national society is increasinglyexpanding To communicate with the others, requiring different countries in theworld have to know the proficient use a common language apart from theirmother tongue In the popular language of communication in the world, English

is a common one which is considered to be the most popular language

For years, learning foreign language is increasingly popularized and thissubject has become a compulsory subject in all schools Therefore, therequirements set out how to achieve quality teaching hours and high efficiency.This requirement requires the teachers to improve themselves not only on thequalification but also on teaching methods and teaching techniques

Comprehending and understanding a language is necessary when studentsare learning a new language due to the fact that people always need tocommunicate and interact with others in different moments or situations in theirlives This paper will focus on listening, but always combined with grammar, as

a way of helping learners to understand the language system and to develop theirability by using it to communicate successfully inside and outside the classroom.Communication skills comprise receptive skills and productive skills Listeningand reading are receptive skills while speaking and writing are productive skills.Receptive skills are these in which students receive and process the informationbut do not need to produce a language to do this, while productive skills requirethe production, for instance, a speech

Listening, as we know, is the skill of understanding spoken language.Listening is an essential skill, present in most of the activities we carry outthroughout our lives We listen to a wide variety of things, for example; whatsomeone says during a conversation, face to face or on the telephone;announcements giving information, for example, at an airport or railway station;the weather forecast on the radio; a play on the radio; music; someone else’sconversation; a lecture; professional advice, for example, at the doctor’s, in thebank; instructions, for example, on how to use a photocopier or other machinery;directions; a taped dialogue in class

In fact, to get good listening skill, the English language learners need tohave a process of regular exercise daily, weekly and monthly with the contentand form of different technologies Teaching listening and learning skills inEnglish, though it is not new, but a very difficult skill for both teachers andstudents at secondary school level That's the reason why the actual situation like

this, I figure research ideas into this subject partly in the hope of helping theEnglish teachers and students gradually overcome the difficulties to carry outimplementation of teaching and learning in English Listening carefullyhorizontal effective better help students learn English more positively, moreproactively in acquiring, perceiving knowledge of the lesson

For these reasons above, as an English language teacher in Tan Sonsecondary school and I always wonder how to help students reach English easilythrough four basic skills: Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing However,They find listening skill the most difficult skill though some of them are verygood in the application of grammar exercises They are interested in learningEnglish in Grade 6, 7, but over time they feel afraid, decreased interest, learnand lead his people to the quality department increasingly decline in the grade

on, especially because of their listening skill in grade 8 Through practicalresearch and teaching to remedy this situation, I boldly launched an innovative

experience “Some experiences to improve the efficiency of teaching listening skill in grade 8 at Tan Son secondary school.”

1.2 Research purpose:

My purpose in writing this initiative experience finds out what the mostcommon and effective methods in developing listening skill and improve the

quality of teaching English at Tan Son secondary school, help students

understand the importance of listening skill in learning English Beside that Ican cultivate myself the professional capacity in teaching, improve the teachingmethods appropriately for each positive post, each subject students to improvethe quality of teaching and learning English at Tan Son secondary school

1.3 Research objects:

Initiative experience focused on teaching methods to improve theefficiency of listening hours and improve the quality of English 8 at Tan Sonsecondary school

- Survey method, comparative, analysis and synthesis

- Research method the tables

1.5 - The innovation of experience.

- Motivate the knowledge

- Innovation

2 THE CONTENT OF THE INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCE

2.1. Theoretical basis of the initiative.

To innovate textbooks, innovative teaching methods, to coordinate andimplement different process data as well as skills to a stringent and uniform way

of living? How is life? That we had a need to teach the new intonation, all fourskills but questioned whether viewing skills is more important skill ornot? Many people believe that Reading and Writing skills are important fortoday's mass media Books, newspapers, documents written many foreignlanguage is English Some people argue that the English Some argue thatspeaking the target is essentially the most essential communication IEP,especially communicating with foreigners But few believe that, in addition to usexpressing their opinion we have to hear from the enemy, the object of which

we are communicating Such dialogue can succeed This led the reason why weshould not use many methods monologue in social relationships

Starting from the reasons that I chose the title for his experience in the

teaching process, which is “Some experiences to improve the efficiency of teaching listening skill in grade 8 at Tan Son secondary school.” I look

forward foreign language teachers take some time can reference and valuableinput to the opinions and experiences of I

2.2 Status of the research problem.

Tan Son Secondary School is a school which belongs to Thanh Hoa city,with 5 classes and a teacher of English Although our school is facing a lot ofdifficulties, we always strive the movement of good teaching - good learning,the movement for improving the quality of education, the facilities for teaching,learning are more be applied fully

But besides that there are still some limitations:

As a secondary school belongs to a countryside commune, spirit is weak,many traditions are backward, less exchange exposure The majority of parents

of students are less interested in the education of children mainly mercy only forschool education and some also have a Vietnamese perspective is also not alllearn how to learn English Some want attention, but the level is stillinadequate, unreasonable method So there are many lazy students

* Toward the teachers:

- Still some teachers have difficulty in performing tasks, technical, it is still difficult in the selection of technical vocational training tosuit each lesson content, to suit each pupils and each stage of the listeninglesson

vocational-* Toward Students:

- Motor learning, practice English listening skills of students is limited

- Students have few opportunities to hear English, they have very littlechance of access to the mass media modern, advanced to the last bared that canunderstand English

- Students in school longer afraid, yet strong in listening and speaking inEnglish, they are also afraid of making mistakes in the process heard English

- Train new skills and technology was difficult for students, especially forstudents of grade 8

*Means and teaching aids:

- Teaching aids for teaching serves Listening skills are not good

*Investigators specifically:

- I have taught English in secondary school for 20 years from that Imyself have been assigned to teach English across the school grades 6,7,8 and 9.With the knowledge, experience in these years Although I have had valuableexperience in the process on the teaching all grades for many students, I alsohave difficulty in finding the most suitable way to teach the students effectively,especially in listening skill I really found it very important to change myapproach so I confidently did it At the school year 2020 - 2021, I was assigned

to direct professional teaching English of grade 8 at Tan Son secondary school.

Through investigation, I realized that most uncertain vocabulary, Englishvocabulary was not large, English Listening skill is limited, failing to meet therequirements and objectives set out for education in general subjects andlistening skills in particular

Here are the survey results quality in the first semester listening skill of students of grade 8 at Tan Son secondary school - school year 2020 - 2021:

Table 1: First semester of the school year 2020 - 2021:

Starting from the above reality I strongly improved, gradually additional the newteaching method applied to the English periods in genera, in the year after to seethe results markedly.

2.3 Solutions and implements:

2.3.1 The solutions:

To attract the attention of students and improve the efficiency of listeninghours, I conducted the following solutions:

* The equipment needed for the course :

1 Computers, Computer speaker, TV

2 Recorders readings and listening textbook

3 Pictorial content and textbook lessons

4 The illustrations, equipment

* The Ten principles of listening:

1 Stop talking

2 Prepare yourself to listen

3 Put the speaker at ease

4 Remove distractions

5 Empathetic

6 Be patient

7 Avoid personal prejudice

8 Listen to the tone

9 Listen for ideas – Not just words

10 Wait and watch for non - Verbal communication

* Procedures of a general listening:

In fact, listening is still a difficult skill for students To overcome thesedifficulties while listening, I often use the following measures:

- Introduce topics which involve listening, explain new words, conceptswill listen

- Give questions to help students predict the content will listen

- Introduce new words or revision, consolidate the vocabulary needed forall to listen

- Give out guiding questions to listen

- Divide the process of listening step by step: The first time: Listening themain, answers to questions The second one: Listening more details

- If the long listening lesson we divide into short - term for the student tolistening, there are various specific requirements

As usual the structure of the listening lesson is usually composed of threemain parts:

Pre-listening

While -listening

Post-listening

Because the listening lessons are difficult, the teacher should require toapply correctly and fully the steps of a listening lesson In each stage mustchoose appropriate, always changing methods, teaching tips to attract students,they will be excited, will increase efficiency of the listening lesson

Here I would like to present some of the methods, tricks I normallyapplied in the teaching in general and especially in the listening lessons

2.3.2 Implements:

The first work when the teacher entered the class-opening a school is thegeneral pedagogic purposes to stabilize class, psychological preparation,knowledge of subjects With foreign language operate on school has a veryimportant meaning, it is as a part of the lesson that without it, the next step is not

or difficult to carry out these activities Particularly, situations created role,poses with the purpose of teaching activities - this is a necessary condition tohave effective lessons

Prepare plans for an English Listening Lesson

A Revision – Warm up:

to focus their attention create excitement by some short game (bingo, pelmanism,

brainstorming ,guessing game, Kim’s game, chain game, crossword puzzle

Ex :

* Brainstorming: Unit 1-lesson 2: ask students to think of the adjectives

used to describe body build and hair

tall straight slim

thin

Fat long

*Bingo: Unit 3 Lesson 5:

- Ask Ss to write down on their notebooks 5 things they can eat

- Prepare a list of food Then call out each word in aloud voice

- Ss listen to the teacher carefully If anyone has the same things ,theycross them out The first person crossing out all 5 things shouts “Bingo” andwin the game

- Suggested list of food: chicken, beef ,cake, candy, garlic , noodles, rice,ham, peas,

*Guessing :Guess from context: What actions? (Unit 9-Lesson 3)

- Ask Ss to look at the picture on page 82 and write out all the verbsdescribing the actions of the people in it.

- Tell Ss the group having the most right verbs is winner

- Answer key: drive, wheel, move, push, weigh, wait, lie, stand, lean

*Crossword puzzle: Unit 14-Lesson 3

- Put the chart on the board

L O S E

C L U E

- Ask Ss to draw the crossword in their note books

- Ask Ss to listen and fill in the crossword

1 Unable to find sth/so

2 Something that help you find out an answer to a question

3 A very thick forest

4 To make a suggestion

Collect Ss’answers and give them good points if they are right

There are many other activities, but every activity I always guide clearly,definitely, in particular I often encourage them, put an exact repair Theseactivities have helped them a lot in the next receptive listening easily

In summary: You can apply various techniques, many methods in the

Revision - Warm up is really effective and perform many different tasks to

create attention of students, class stability and control oldest investigation and help students psychological preparation for their lesson

- Teachers can ask students to work in teams, guess preliminary hearingabout upcoming content through pictorial or listening situations Maybe they sayexactly what they are going to hear but the problem is that you can create forstudents the excitement and confidence before listening

- Teachers help them to anticipate the difficulties that students mayencounter in pronunciation or new structures, new knowledge

- Finally teachers make it clear to students that they will be heard manytimes, and guidance requirements, specific tasks for the students to listen(Choose the right / wrong answer )