Teaching listening

1. Teaching Listening
Comprehension
Jaser Mohammad Al-Sha’alani
East Center

2. Definition :
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Procedures and Techniques
Teacher
Students
Listen, Understand and Respond

3. • Foundation
• Accurately, Correctly and
Adequately
• Step, Fluency and Accuracy

4. Teacher’s Role
• Provide opportunities
• Train , listen and understand
speech of native speakers

5. Factors of Listening Skill
• Material
• Environment
• Listener
• Speaker

6. Material
• Appropriate Level
• Carefully designed
• Suitable

7. Environment
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Noise
Interference
Audio/ Visual
Lab

8. • Listener : familiar, topic,
note-taking, summary making
• Speaker :language, clarity,
normal ,

9. Levels of Listening Comprehension
• Elementary: sounds/easy words
• Intermediate: short conversation
• Advanced :outlines/long essays

10. Requirements for Listening Practice
• The ability to :
distinguish sound , intonation ,
grammar , meaning from
context , collocation , written
and spoken .

11. Designation of a Listening
Lesson
• Pre-listening: warm up
• While listening: focus
• Post-listening: evaluate

12. Pre-listening
• Motivation : listening, interesting
• Contextualization : environment
• Preparation: vocabulary and
expressions

13. Pre-listening
• Setting the context:
Who..? Where..? Why..? What..?
• Activating the topic and
vocabulary/ pictures: knowledge
• Predicting title and content

14. While listening
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Number of times
Single words
Checking answers/compare
breathing

15. Post-listening
• Reaction to the text :
agree, disagree, believe,
paraphrase
• Analysis of language :
verbs ,words, collocation

16. Teaching Procedures
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Teaching aids
Basic information
New vocabulary/ questions
Introduction, purpose, Why,
expectation
• Listening

17. Teaching Procedures
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Listening/ notes
Notes / answers
Length / difficulty
Discuss answers
Correction
Check understanding

18. Listening Exercises
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Key-word
Drawing
Short interviews
Dictation
Conversation
Getting information / telephone

19. Testing Listening Comprehension
• Understanding individual words
words / pictures
• Recognizing the meaning of
sentences
• Testing structure
listen , write (grammar )

20. Testing Listening Comprehension
• Short oral passage
information, T/F , multiple- choice
• Long passage
notes, outlines , main points

21. Thank You