Teaching

Listening
 Principles for teaching listening

1. Expose students to the different

ways of processing data.
2. Exposed students to the
different types of listening.
3. Teach a variety of tasks.
4. Consider task difficulty and
authenticity.
***Factors that contribute to the students
comprehension ability.
a. Voices (more voices; more difficult)
b. Clarity of distinction bet. Voices
c. Transitional words
d. Sequence of events
e. Consistency of information

***Authenticity
a. Task Authenticity
1) simulated 2) incidental
b. Input Authenticity
1)genuine 3)adapted
2) altered 4) simulated 5) incidental
5. Teach Listening Strategies
a. Predicting
b. Inferring
- listening between the lines
c. Monitoring
- noticing what one understands and not.
d. Clarifying
- involves asking questions and giving feedback
e. Responding
- reacting to what they hear.
f. Evaluating
- checking on how one understands
 Processes in
Teaching Listening
Exercises in
Listening
Comprehension
 Format for Exercises in Listening
Comprehension

1. Identify the skills you want t develop

through the exercise.
2. The situation should be clearly described
or stated.
3. Tell the purpose for the listening
process.
4. Extension activities should be provided.
 Suggested Listening Comprehension
Activities

A. Identification
a. Aural discrimination of language
features
b. Transcribing and re-transcribing
tapes of unedited authentic speech.
B. Identification and Selection (w/o
Retention)
a. Listening to sequel to a passage
read
b. Listening to recordings of plays,
songs and poems already studied.
c. Listening to debates and
discussions by fellow students.
d. Listening to commercials or any
recordings of fellow students.
C. Identification and Guided
Selection with Short-Term Retention
a. Watching English-Language
Films
b. Listening to reports of fellow
students (with interaction)
c. Group conversations
d. Taking don notes
e. Writing dictations
D. Identification, Selection and Long-
Term Retention
a. Listening to lectures by visitors
b. Watching plays
c. Listening to plays (not studied
previously.
d. Listening to lengthy instructions.
e. Discussion of Newscast in English
f. Watching films with discussion
afterwards.
References:

Alcantara, Rebecca D. et.al., Teaching

Strategies 1. (Rev. Ed). Quezon City:
Katha Publishing House, 1996.

Nunan, David. Second Language Teaching &

Learning. (Phil. Ed). Pasig City: Cengage
Learning Asia Pte Ltd.,2009.