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Principles behind the teaching of listening

1 -The tape recorder is just as important as the

tape.

2 - Preparation is vital.

3 -Once will not be enough.

4 - Students should be encouraged to respond to

the content of a listening

5 - Different listening stages demand different

listening tasks.

6 - Good teachers exploit listening texts to the full.

Stages in a listening lesson

Before you listen

The teacher (T) establishes a context and introduces the topic of a text Ss are required

to guess what they are going to listen to T writes the Ss’ guesses on the board Ss are asked to listen to the text to check if things they guess are correct or not

Open

prediction

Pre-questions

T writes a few questions on the board These questions should focus on the main ideas of the text T gives students a few minutes to guess the answers to the questions It

doesn’t matter if Ss can’t guess correctly

True/false

prediction

T writes 5 – 10 statements about the main points

of a text Half of the statements are true, and the other half are false Ss are asked to work in pairs and decide if the statements are true or false T writes the students’ guesses on the board Ss are asked to listen to the text to check the answers

While you listen

Multiple

choice

T prepares questions about the ideas in the listening text For each question, there are three or four options for students (Ss) to choose from

T prepares some simple pictures to describe a story or a text, and sticks them on the board randomly Ss listen to the text and arrange the pictures in the correct order

Ordering

pictures

Gap-fill T writes a short paragraph with several

blanks in it The blanks can be lexical or grammatical items or both Ss listen and fill each blank with information they hear

Ordering

statements/events

T writes about 6 to 8 statements on the main points of a text but the statements are jumbled Ss listen to the text to find out the order of the statements

T writes some true and some deliberately false statements about the text on the blackboard Then Ss listen to the text to find out which are correct

True/false

statements

Comprehension

questions

These are the questions related to the main ideas of a text to check students’

comprehension Ss listen and answer questions from T or from the textbook

After you listen

Ss write letters, postcards, messages, diaries, etc based on the listening text or

to extend it

Short written

texts

Retelling the

story

Ss retell the story in groups, using their own word or using some provided cues

Discussion Ss discuss similar or related issues based on

prompt questions or pictures

Role play Ss continue the story or situation by assuming

the roles of people in the texts

Designing a listening test

• Some reminders on the listening

passage

1 Length

2 Lexical density

3 Use of words

4 Grammatical patterns

• Some common types of listening tasks

1 Matching

2 Gap-filling

3 True/False statements

4 Short answers

5 Multiple choice questions

6 Answer the questions