Teaching Listening Comprehension

Jaser Mohammad Al-Sha’alaniEast Center

Definition :

• Procedures and Techniques

• Teacher

• Students

• Listen, Understand and Respond

• Foundation

• Accurately, Correctly and Adequately

• Step, Fluency and Accuracy

Teacher’s Role

• Provide opportunities

• Train , listen and understand speech of native speakers

Factors of Listening Skill

• Material

• Environment

• Listener

• Speaker

Material

• Appropriate Level

• Carefully designed

• Suitable

Environment

• Noise

• Interference

• Audio/ Visual

• Lab

• Listener : familiar, topic, note-taking, summary making

• Speaker :language, clarity, normal ,

Levels of Listening Comprehension

• Elementary: sounds/easy words

• Intermediate: short conversation

• Advanced :outlines/long essays

Requirements for Listening Practice

• The ability to : distinguish sound , intonation , grammar , meaning from context , collocation , written and spoken .

Designation of a Listening Lesson

• Pre-listening: warm up

• While listening: focus

• Post-listening: evaluate

Pre-listening

• Motivation : listening, interesting

• Contextualization : environment

• Preparation: vocabulary and expressions

Pre-listening

• Setting the context: Who..? Where..? Why..? What..?

• Activating the topic and vocabulary/ pictures: knowledge

• Predicting title and content

While listening

• Number of times

• Single words

• Checking answers/compare

• breathing

Post-listening

• Reaction to the text : agree, disagree, believe, paraphrase

• Analysis of language : verbs ,words, collocation

Teaching Procedures

• Teaching aids• Basic information • New vocabulary/ questions • Introduction, purpose, Why,

expectation • Listening

Teaching Procedures

• Listening/ notes• Notes / answers• Length / difficulty • Discuss answers• Correction• Check understanding

Listening Exercises

• Key-word

• Drawing

• Short interviews

• Dictation

• Conversation

• Getting information / telephone

Testing Listening Comprehension

• Understanding individual words words / pictures

• Recognizing the meaning of sentences

• Testing structure listen , write (grammar )

Testing Listening Comprehension

• Short oral passage information, T/F , multiple- choice

• Long passage notes, outlines , main points

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