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Teaching Listening Techniques

The document outlines various techniques for teaching listening skills and evaluates each technique based on advantages and disadvantages. Some key techniques include: 1) Having learners predict vocabulary or questions before listening to prepare them and increase participation. 2) Giving learners a purpose and tasks for listening like identifying main ideas or specific details, which focuses their attention but could increase stress. 3) Playing passages multiple times with different activities each time keeps students motivated but is time-consuming. 4) Providing the text while listening engages reading and listening skills simultaneously with no disadvantages.

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Teaching Listening Techniques

The document outlines various techniques for teaching listening skills and evaluates each technique based on advantages and disadvantages. Some key techniques include: 1) Having learners predict vocabulary or questions before listening to prepare them and increase participation. 2) Giving learners a purpose and tasks for listening like identifying main ideas or specific details, which focuses their attention but could increase stress. 3) Playing passages multiple times with different activities each time keeps students motivated but is time-consuming. 4) Providing the text while listening engages reading and listening skills simultaneously with no disadvantages.

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Teaching listening techniques Score Advantage(s) Disadvantage(s)

a) Teacher plays a tape, without 4 None No preparation for listening; no


introducing the topic or anything else purpose stated

b) Teacher tells learner their purpose in - giving a reason to focus None


listening on listening

- better understanding of
an activity

c) The teacher announces the topic of the - more active None


passage then asks class to brainstorm participation during the
vocabulary they expect to hear in the class
passage. - learning new vocabulary
- improves teamwork
between students

d) Teacher asks learners to predict - students more - students may have problems
questions that might be asked in a taped interested in the class with making predictions
conversation. - active participation

e) Teacher plays the passage tape once, - learners gain general - some students may have a
without preparation asking the learners to knowledge about passage problem with understanding
listen for main ideas. which can help with more what they are supposed to do
detailed exercises
- learners might feel less
motivated

f) Learners have done one listening task to - exercise is less stressful None
get the main idea of a text. For the second for learners as they are
time they listen, the teacher gives a task to more familiar with the
listen for more detailed information. text

- learners know what


they are supposed to do

g.) Teacher asks learners to listen to the - less stressful for - learners might have problems
tape and then summarise the content in students with explaining different subjects
their own language. in L2
- learners can focus on
the content more instead
of focusing on
grammatical correctness
during explanation

h) Teacher asks learner to draw something - it might help students - students might lose focus on
(e.g. a picture on map) while listening. who are kinesthetic the main activity
learners
- students feel more
relaxed

I) Teacher plays each sentence of taped - students have no - students might have problem
dialogue and asks learners to translate the problems with with using L2
sentence in to their L1. understanding text
- it takes too much time
j) Teacher dictates a passage to learn, - learners develop their - for some students it might be
leaving gaps between phrases; learners hearing ability too hard to focus on writing and
write down exactly what they hear. listening at the same time
- if learners have
problems with
understanding from
heard text, they might
find a meaning by context

k) Teacher plays a short passage then orally - learners learn abilities - learners might get too stressed
asks learners basic comprehension needed for basic and as a result unable to
questions. conversations respond

l) Teacher plays the same passage a few - fully understanding of - time-absorbing


times, each time asking learners to do a the text
new listening activity and listen for a - keeping students
different purpose. motivated with new
activities

m) Teacher gives the class the text to read - learners might None
as they listen to the tape. understand text better

- involves reading and


listening skills at the same
time

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