Listening to teachers series#

To practice and extend the learners' use of a certain language structure or function.

There are two reasons for using integrating activities in language classrooms: This brings us to the must of integrating language skills.

If we have our students produce something, the teaching will be more communicative. Listening is a receptive skill, and receptive skills give way to productive skills. , to dissect out of the wave form of the morphemes, words, and other meaning-bearing elements of the utterance. His linguistic competence enables him, presumably, to recognize the formatives of the heard utterance, i. The listener must have a continuous set to listen and understand, and as he hears the utterance, he may be helped by some kind of set to process and remember the information transmitted. Listening to and understanding speech involves a number of basic processes, some depending upon linguistic competence, some depending upon previous knowledge that is not necessarily of a purely linguistic nature, and some depending upon psychological variables that affect the mobilization of these competence and knowledge in the particular task situation. In this day of mass communication (much of it oral), it is of vital importance that our pupils be taught to listen effectively and critically, he says. It's a medium through which children, young people and adults gain a large portion of their education-their information, their understanding of the world and of human affairs, their ideals, sense of values, and their appreciation. , speakers' attitude or intentions.Īccording to Bulletin (1952), listening is one of the fundamental language skills. understanding inferred information, e., which give clues to meaning and social setting understanding different intonation patterns and uses of stress, etc., such as and which, including linking words, pronouns, references, etc. , Well Oh, another thing is Now, finally etc. retaining relevant points (note-taking, summarizing).identifying relevant points rejecting irrelevant information.using one's own knowledge of the subject to help one understand.guessing at unknown words or phrases without panic.predicting what people are going to talk about.

Listening to teachers series#

Willis (1981:134) lists a series of micro-skills of listening, which she calls enabling skills.

An able listener is capable of doing these four things simultaneously. This involves understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning (Howatt and Dakin). Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. Hacettepe University (Beytepe-Ankara, Turkey) The Internet TESL Journal The Teaching of Listening Arif Saricoban