Listening sub-skills
- Discriminating sounds in isolation word form,
- Discriminating sounds in connected speech,
- Discriminating stress pattern within words,
- Recognizing variation in stress in connected speech,
- Recognizing use of stress in connected speech, and
- Understanding intonation pattern and interpreting attitudinal meaning through variation of tone.
Reasons for teaching listening.
- To expose the students to varieties of English,
- To expose the students to different kind of speech,
- To help students acquire English subconsciously,
- To exchange information,
- To share feelings,
- To enjoy with listening target language literature, and
- To engage in social rituals.
Real life listening situation
- Telephone conversation,
- Interviews
- Interaction in social events
- Meeting and seminars
- Instructions
- Lecture conversation
- Listening Radio TV program
- Live broadcast
- Theatre show
- Story telling
- shopping
- listen podcast.
Activities for teaching listening
- Narrating story
- Conduct interview
- Following instruction
- Translate or paraphrase
- Listen audio
- Watching film and drama
- Singing and listening a song
- Reading aloud
- Note taking
- Summarizing
- Play " Simon says " game.
