ENG 512 - JENIE G.

SAMBAYAN

TEACHING ESL/EFL LISTENING AND SPEAKING

This lesson teaches us that in teaching listening and speaking in ESL, there

are things to be considered. Discussed in this lesson are the four strands. These are

the strands of meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused

learning, and fluency development. Each of these strands provides different kinds of

opportunity for learning and requires different conditions for the learning to occur.

Highlighted in this lesson is that the learners should be largely familiar with

the language used in the learning process and it must be meaning-focused input and

output so that it would be easier for the learners to relate to the topic. Because the

more familiar and exposed they are to the specific language, the larger the

opportunity for them to learn the language.

In language-focused learning, it is being stressed also that learners should

focused on what they should be learning and are aware of what they should be

learning. Fluency development strand also provides the opportunity to become really

good at using what is already known. Activities must relate to their experiences

making sure that the language, ideas and discourse requirements of the activity are

all within the learners’ experience so that the learners are able to develop the skill

aspect of the activity.

Thus, learning listening and speaking in ESL, learners must be able to learn it

meaningfully through “experience” tasks because the knowledge required to do the

activity is already well within learners’ experience allowing them to remember every

lesson and later develop mastery and fluency to the language.