Android-Unit9 Teaching Listening

Teaching Listening：Why does listening seem so difficult?、What do we listen to in everyday life?、Characteristics of the listening process

Teaching Listening

• Why does listening seem so difficult?
  • 1. Reasons for poor listening
• What do we listen to in everyday life?
  • 1.One reason for students‟ unsatisfactory listening abilities
  • 2. Criteria of judging the list of listening situations
• Characteristics of the listening process
  • 1. Characteristics of listening in real life
    • sponetaneity
    • context
    • visual clues
    • listener's response
    • speaker's adjustment
• Principles and models for teaching listening
  • 1.Two major purposes in listening
    • Social reasons
    • Obtain and exchange information
  • 2.Principles of teaching listening:
    • Focus on process
    • Combine listening with other skills
    • Focus on the comprehension of meaning
    • Grade difficulty level appropriately
    • Principles for selecting and using listening activities
  • 3.Two approaches used to describe different processes of listening
    • Bottom-up model
    • Top-down model
  • 4.Three teaching stages of listening
    • Pre-listening
    • While-Listening
    • Post-listening
• Pre-listening activities
  • 1. Predicting
  • 2. Setting the scene
  • 3. Listening for the gist
  • 4. Listening for specific information
  • 5. Summary on pre-listening activities
• While-listening activities
  • 1. No specific responses
  • 2. Listen and tick
  • 3. Losten.and sequence
  • 4. Listen and act
  • 5. Listen and draw
  • 6. Listen and fill
  • 7. Listen and take notes
  • 8. Summary on whie-listening activities
• Post-listening activities
  • 1. Multiple-choice questions
  • 2. Answering questions
  • 3. Note-taking and gap-filling
  • 4. Dictogloss
  • 5. Summary on post-listening activities
• Conclusion