Teaching Listening

Listening process

We know that the listening process is this simple as the image but the issue is that in foreign language is different and more difficult.

Stage 1: The sounds go into sensory store called "echoic"

Stage 2: Processing information by short-term memory. At this point the information is compared with the long-term memory and the meaning is extracted from them.

Stage 3: Construct a meaning from the utterance

Subtopic

Schema theory in classroom

How knowledge is represented?

How the representation facilitate the use of knowledge in particular way?

Botton-up processing

Top-down processing

Difficulties in classroom

We can notice that for our students is difficult to sometimes having lack the ability to hear and also the rhythm, intonation and stress change us the way to listen.The students need to being exposure and practice with different accents, we can do it making some interchange or set some listening audios with different accents.

Sounds problems: Pronunciation, rhythm, intonation, and stress

Lacking the ability to skim what is heard

Lacking exposure and practice with different kind of accents

Inability to link words to the context

Develop listening skills

Focusing on meaning and trying to learn new and important content in the target language.

Working on comprehension activities

Self-access outside the classroom

We can use several material like tiktoks, radio broadcast in English or look at some movies in English and try following the subtitles in English.

The use of tapes, videos, DVDs, radio broadcasts in English, movies, etc. Any material that is of the interest of the students and they will be educating their listening skills.

EE: Teaching Language as Communication.

EE: Teaching Language as CommunicationStudent: Guadalupe de la Cruz Capitaine RamosTLC 301_ListeningTitle: Unit 3:ListeningDate: November, 2023