Teaching listening skills using Mobile

devices

ByOhoud AL-Oufi

-Perhaps the most important study skill students need to learn is the ability to listen closely and comprehend what they have heard .

As a teacher, students' listening skill levels can make a difference in their performance as well as the class atmosphere .

- -Listening exercises may be considered the first

-stage in learning a second language

- -Learners today exist in an increasingly multimodal environment. Mobile devices provide

-extra levels of flexibility for such learners, providing them with both auditory as well as visual

-input– allowing them to learn anytime, anywhere and while doing anything

It’s a lot easier than lugging around a huge text book or pages that add to clutter and can get lost.

More mobile than sitting at a computer work station. Was able to relax in own environment.podcasts have proved to be a popular way of reaching wide audiences

There are sevral ways to teach listening by using mobile devices-:

1 -Audio Segments You can also teach listening skills through audio segments of radio programs, online podcasts, instructional lectures and other audio messages

2 -Video segmentsincluding short sketches, news programs, documentary films, interview segments, and dramatic and comedic materials.

*the ability to access audio forms of scholarly literature is a recent development .

*enabling staff and students to create their own personalized collections of audio files is empowering for mobile learners.