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The Importance of Listening Skill

access the sounds and suprasegmental features of a

language

practical channel of communication

major source of informationSocial Skill

major source of pleasure and relaxation

Cannot engage confidently in speaking without knowing the language sounds and sound patterns of the language.

Very spontaneous and fast.

Require a minimum amount of resources.

Communicate through aural medium - radio.

Learn the art of living through oral stories.

Channel of communication is closed if we talk to people without listening to what they said.

For example : Listening to the cooing of the baby can be a joy for parent.

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Skills Needed To Process The Text

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pick up the topic of the text with the help of the schemata.

1.Identifying the Topic

try to guess what is being talked about and try to predict what is coming.

2.Guessing

and Predicting understand

the gist of the discourse without requiring the details.

3.Listening for

General Understanding

Concentrate only on the particular item that interest us.

4. Listening For

Specific Information

Listen to something in order to understand all the details.

5. Listening for

Detailed Information

use a variety of clues to understand and interpret what the speaker is impying or suggesting.

6. Interpreting

Text

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Ways To Develop and Sharpen the Listening Skill

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Students listen to , identify and imitate the sounds . Songs - awareness of the sounds that exist in the environment and referred to in the language. For example, cows "moo".

L i s t e n i n g t o s o u n d s o f t h e e n v i r o n m e n t

Expand their vocabulary and internalize usage of grammar. Use of visual aids and paralinguistic features. Ask the students to make sounds or say lines or parts of the story. Listen to the story and in pairs put the pictures in the order required by the listening text.

U s e o f S t o r y T e l l i n g

Language that is easy to memorize and repeat. to internalize specific language structures, develop an amount of vocabulary. Involve in developing the articulation, tone and expressivity.

U s e o f P o e m a n d N u r s e r y R h y m e s

Easier to identify through listening to the sounds than by reading. For example, " two" and"shoe" are rhyming words that ends with the /u/ sound. Recognize words more easily in written form and differentiate the same letter combination of letters such as " pour" and "sour".

D e v e l o p i n g P h o n e m i c A w a r e n e s s

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