LISTENING
This unit is about listening; it is a receptive skill, through listening we are able to understand spoken language and making sense of meaningful sounds and we can do this by making use of context. Accorning to the TKT BOOK "Spoken language is more natural and it is characterized for having stress and intonation and connected speech." At the moment of talking a person that is talking makes use of gestures and facial expressions and if it is not
well organized it could contains hesitations.
Aditionally, listening has subskills: Listen for gist, specific
information, detail and inferring attitude. There are two kinds of
listening:
·
Intensive
Listening ------ Listening for pleasure
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Extensive Listening ----- Listening for academic purposes
I have learned that into listening we can find different listening text types such
as lectures, stories, songs, etc. Those listening text types contain different ways of
organizing language and information, different grammatical patterns, a
particular range of vocabulary, different interaction
patterns. Listening means understanding relevant text types and into listening a person must be able to
understand speech patterns; those are part of connected speech.
*Word and
Sentence Stress
*Linking Sounds
*Contracted
Forms
In the classroom we as teachers can encourage students
to practice and develop the listening skills by using genres that they like;
for example songs or stories. This exposes learners to a range of accents,
speeds of delivery and listening skills. Is good to pre-teach key words to help students understand the listenings,
also we have to give learners authentic
material to let them be in contact
with real language.
References:
- Youtube.com, How to improve listening skills, (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssuiqtreiBg
- Arévalo Galarza Bolívar (2008) Estrategias para el aprendizaje. Ecuador
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