Developing and Practicing

Listening and Speaking Skills

Margarita Alemán Yépez
Javier Aguilar Bernal
 Overview of Listening and
Speaking Skills in Language
Learning
• To speak and listen fluently and accurately
in a second language, language learners
need to be able to comprehend and
produce- in a native-like fashion- stress,
intonation, rhythm, pacing, gestures, and
body language, and they need both
linguistic and sociolinguistic competence.
(Florez,1999)
• Peregoy and Boyle (2001) recommend
activities such as singing, role-playing
dramatizing poetry, doing show and tell,
tape recording children’s book, and choral
reading.
Listening and Speaking around the
computer
• Learners can work around the computer
with learners at their own level to obtain
and practice basic skills.

• Working around the computer allows

learners to test their language and content
hypotheses with peers, to learn pragmatic
skills before taking them outside of the
classroom.
 Listening and Speaking Through
the Computer
• When learners are capable of interacting
with more fluent speakers, they can use
the computer as a conduit to native
speakers and more advanced second
language learners around the world.
 Language Learning with the
Computer
• Opportunities for learners to work
interactively with the computer on listening
and speaking are relatively rare because
the computer cannot respond creatively or
provide individualized feedback.
Supporting Listening and Speaking
 1. Provide opportunities for
students to notice
Noticing is important during reading and
writing, but to produce fluent and
comprehensible speech and to react
appropriately to the others’ speech,
students also need to notice their own
linguistic errors.
2. Include pragmatics in lessons
• Teachers can use any of the language
modes to teach norms of social
appropriatness in the target language
culture if they make noticing these
features a lesson objective.
 Teachers can help students learn to
listen and speak by giving them time
to talk to each other everyday.

 Peer interaction provides practice in

listening, speaking? Yes / NO WHY
 Learners can develop speaking,
listening, and oral grammar skills
through direct instruction or by
participating in content or whole tasks

 but most important is that learners hav

opportunities to practice in a variety of
authentic places.
Technologies for Listening and
Speaking.
What is the usual pattern?

For listening and speaking.

 LESSON
 FOCUS
 PREPARATION
 PRESENTACION
 PRACTICE
 EVALUATION
 EXTENSION
 LESSON : INTRODUCING CALL TO
LEARNERS
 FOCUS: Interviewing skills, discussion
skills, oral summary, question
formation, listening for main ideas.
 Preparation: show the learners the
computers that they will be using. Ask them
to brainstorm what computers are used for.
Ask what might be learnerd with/throught
computers in a language classroom. ( what
topics, vocabulary, skills)
 Type these lists in a word processing or
presentation program as the learners
participate.
 Presentation: create a survey with
learners to find out about previous
computer use and skills among members
of the class or program. Focus on
vacabulary and grammar points as
necessary. Work with the class on
interviewing skills, model procedure, and
have learners practice with each other.
 Practice:have the learners
conduct the survey orally eith the
target population and take notes on
the answers. Learners record all
the answers they receive in a
simple database.
 Evaluation: based on the answers
they received have learners add to
their original list of what computers
are used for and what might be
learned with/through the technology.
Ask students to keep this list and to
add to it during the course.
 Extension: have learners, individually
or in small groups, survey other
laguage classes. Ask them to report
their findings back to the class, and
then have the class discuss these
findings before entering them into the
database.
 While working on this lesson, learners
are encountering and practicing the
target language.

 They are meeting learning conditions

such as authentic social interaction and
production and using technology as a
learning tool.
 Web links
 Picture vocabulary
 http://www.eflnet.com/
 Learn a language. Make friends. Have fun
 http://www.myhappyplanet.com/index.ph
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