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TEACHING LISTENING

3rd WTDC Multiple Choices

July 2011


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Why is Listening so important?

How our Communication Time is Spent in a day

Writing

9%

Reading16%

Speaking

30%

Listening

45%


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The Challenge

To integrate skills

To provide opportunities for authentic

communication contexts

To give a reason for communication

(information gaps)

To assess these skills in an objective

manner


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The Listening Quiz

TO DETERMINE YOUR

LISTENING QUOTIENT TAKE

THIS TEST.

ANSWER YES OR NO


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YES NO

1.I anticipate what people will say next as theyare speaking.2.I'm constantly judging the merit of what people

say from the very first sentence.3.I discount what other people say,if they don'tagree with my opinions and values.

4.I rarely pay attention to people's nonverbalcues (such as body language and facialexpressions).5.I let my biases and opinions affect my ability

or willingness to listen to what some people say


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YES NO

6.I prepare what I'm going to say in response while theother person is talking.7.I often interrupt people to speed along a conversation

or to inject my opinion.

8.If I disagree with people, I interrupt them immediatelyto set the record straight.9.Most of the time, I am ready with a response right

when the other person stops talking.10.If the other person is long winded or boring, I stop

listening.11.When I stop paying attention to someone, I try to look

like I'm listening anyway.12.When I know what people are going to say, I don't

wait for them to finish, but answer right away.


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ANSWERS NO

If your score is 10 or more, you're a skilledlistener.You have what it takes to be a giftedleader.

If your score is 7 to 9, you're well within theaverage range. People probably wouldn't callyou a bad listener. They might just think you'reinattentive or too busy or distracted to pay

attention.

If you scored fewer than 7 times,you need help.


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LISTENING

LETS TRY ONE???HOW WAS IT???


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What Makes Listening Difficult?

Clustering

Repetition

Reduced forms

Performance variables

Colloquial language

How fast someone speaks

Stress, rhythm, and intonation

Interaction


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Reasons why our students dont do or dontlike doing the Listening Activities

-Lack of time- Most of the time they say they didnt understand

the speaker-The listening is too fast (is it?)

-They say its boring-Linking Sounds

-Intonation


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What happens when a student doest

do the Listening Activity?

What are we supposed to do when we

notice that the student has cheated?

What if the student is very weak, hedoesnt participate, he is totally lost in

class and his Homework (the ListeningPart) is perfect?


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Principles for TeachingListening

1. Expose students to different ways ofprocessing information

Bottom-up vs. Top-down

Interactive

2. Expose students to different types oflistening

3. Teach a variety of tasks

4. Consider text, difficulty, and authenticity

Helgeson, 2003


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What does a listener need to knowbefore listening???

The speakers voice

Lenght of text

Intended audience and audiences role.

Relationship between listener and speaker

Function of the text ( inform, entertain, etc)

Information about the topic

Specialised vocabulary

What they need to do


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Listening Activities

Bottom-up decoding smallest units phonemeand syllables to lead us towards meaning

Top-down background knowledge to predict

content.

Top-down is based in parts on the listener,much of the comprehension relies on what

happens in the mind before the listening haseven begun, whereas the bottom-up approachdepends more on the sounds heard.


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Top-down

Listening for the main idea

Predicting

Drawing inferences Summarizing


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Bottom-up

Listening for specific details

Recognizing cognates

Recognizing word-order patterns


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Pre-listening

1. Active schemata: What do I know?

2. Reasons: Why listen?

3. Prediction: What can I expect to hear?

While-Listening

1. Monitor: Are my expectations met?

2. Monitor: Am I succeeding in the task?

Post-Listening

1. Feedback: Did I fulfil the task?


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Pre-Listening

Predicting

Estabilishing reasons for listening

Generating questions Pre-teaching vocabulary

Things to avoid during the pre-listening

stage


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Why While-ListeningActivities?

Listening for gist

Listening for detail

InferringNote-taking


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Post-Listening

Reflecting

Checking and summarizing

Discussion

Creative responses

Critical Responses

Information exchange

Problem solving

Deconstructing/Reconstructing the listening task.


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Listening Strategies

Teach student how to listen

Looking for keywords Looking for nonverbal cues to meaning

Predicting a speakers purpose by the context ofthe spoken discourse Associating information with ones existing

background knowledge (activating schema) Guessing meanings

Seeking clarification Listening for the general gist For tests of listening comprehension, various test-

taking strategies


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How would you do the Pre Listening with the following Books?

BOOK 3LISTENING LESSON 24-Doyou think employees should work overtime?- I cant talk to them now- What should I say to them?-Could I have your keys, please?-We must study more

BOOK 4

LISTENING LESSON 12-Do you agree with the following statement: You can only learn when you are readyto be taught? Why or why not?

LISTENING LESSON 20-You are a supervisor at a factory.The employees in your department want to go onstrike for batter salaries. Your boss doesnt want to raise their salaries and said that

he would fire whoever went on strike.What would you do?-LESSON 24- Its summer in Utah. You are going to spend three weeks on a backpacking trip inthe Rocky Mountains. You have to take all the supplies you will probably need,because you wont be near any stores during this time. What would you take withyou and why?


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What about the Listening from theReviews ( Book 4) when we have todictate. Do you ask them to write the

questions or just the answers?


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Teaching Listening 19-07