ORIENTATION WEEK

HOW TO LEARN LISTENING & SPEAKING

ICEBREAKER!

My name is_____.
I want to do the send degree in English
language studies because_______.
I can understand my teacher/my
friend says but I can’t find the
right way to respond

DISCUSSION
I try to express my ideas, but Does this sound like
native speakers of English do not you sometimes?
understand me

I practice listening a lot, but my

skills don’t seem to improve at all
How To Learn Listening

How To Learn Speaking OVERVIEW

The relationship Between

Listening & Speaking

Introduction To The Coursebook

for Listening & Speaking
 DISCUSSION

Reflection: How do we learn our native language?

OR ?

Speaking Listening

Listening Speaking
HOW TO LEARN
LISTENING?
 • Listening as the ability to understand native speech at normal
speed.
Chastain (1971)
WHAT IS • Listening is understanding the oral language.
LISTENING Bowen, Madsen, and Hilferty (1985)
• Listening is a channel for comprehensible input and more than
50 percent of the time learners spend in learning a foreign
language is devoted to listening.
Hashmi (2015)
 the topic

the general flow of conversation

CLUES TO HELP
YOUR
COMPREHENSION the speaker

the type of material

the speaker's tone of voice.

OBSTACLES TO COMPREHENSION

The speed of delivery

The use of exceptionally idiomatic, slang, technical lexis

Unclear speech

Unfamiliar dialects or accents.

TYPES OF LISTENING PRACTICE
INTENSIVE LISTENING
• Take place inside the classroom
• Listen to a listening text to complete required listening tasks and discuss detailed aspects of
meaning
• Listening resources: a tape or CD
Goals:
• Getting more detailed understanding of some segments of the text
• Transcribing certain segments in the text
• Guessing the meaning of a word or phrase from context
• Looking at certain grammatical structures in the text
TYPES OF LISTENING PRACTICE
EXTENSIVE LISTENING

Extensive listening takes place outside the classroom (students’

homes, cars, etc. )
Idea: Ss listen to enjoyable texts

Listening resources: songs on Youtube, TV shows, Internet podcasts,

movies, etc.
WHERE TO START WITH EXTENSIVE LISTENING?
• Choose materials of interests and basic understanding
• Maintain the frequency of listening
• Listen to more unfamiliar materials
DICTATION METHOD TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILL

• 1st listening:
Play sentence by sentence. Listen and repeat the whole sentence
• 2nd listening:
Listen and copy down word for word (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
• 3rd listening:
Listen and continue to complete the written sentence.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SOURCES/ WEBSITES
FOR PRACTICE?
HERE ARE SOME IDEAS YOU COULD USE TO PRACTICE
WITH:

A scene from a movie or tv show (+ the subtitles)

A podcast episode with a transcript
A video on Euro news or other news websites
A Youtube video with a transcription
A book audiobook format
Dialogues and their transcription
 short audio clip of no more than 3 or 4 minutes
+ listen to it multiple times
+ look up what you don’t understand
+ repeatedly hear the new words and phrases you come across
think carefully about the content of the materials you choose and find things that cover topics that
are important to you: listen to material that you already mostly understand
TOPICS THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO

Travel
❖ Present Perfect Tense vs. Past Simple
Investing
❖ Word order in English statements
Movie/music reviews
❖ Sentence Structure
Health & fitness
❖ Talk, Speak, Tell – What’s the difference?
Relationships
❖ How to use “used to” in English
Pets
❖ How to talk about the future with “WILL”
Gardening
❖ Basic English vocabulary for restaurants
News
❖ 5 common mistakes in spoken English
Beauty
4 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

1. Step 1: Listen to the Audio – No Reading!

2. Step 2: Listen again!
3. Step 3: Listen With the Text
4. Step 4: Listen Again Without the Text
There’s no Quick Fix for Listening Skills
HOW TO LEARN SPEAKING?
TRAIN YOUR MIND FIRST!

• Try to replace negative thoughts with positive ones: “I can speak well”, “English speaking

is easy and fun “, “I will go out there and speak good English”

• Focus on small improvements.

MAKING USE OF SPEAKING CLASSES
• Think about the subject matter in advance

• Contribute to speaking activities in classes (speak, add another ideas, make

constructive comments, etc. )

 HOW TO SOUND NATURAL

Pronunciation

Intonation
Word Stress
Sentence stress
• important

/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/

• calculate

/ˈkæl.kjə.leɪt/
DIFFICULT SOUNDS

• /θ & /ð/
• /ʃ/ & /ʒ/
• /tʃ/ & /dʒ/
PRACTICE
Hi, my name's Sarah. I come from England. And my question is what environmental
problems are facing your country?
I would say right now in England, one of the main issues would definitely be air pollution.
There's so many airports here, so every day there's thousands of flights coming in and out
of our air space causing a lot of pollution. And also, cars. I would say most people here
own a car or even some families have multiple cars between them. So I think there's a lot of
air pollution from how much transportation that we do use in England.
Also, another big problem right now would be littering. Either waste and rubbish isn't
disposed of properly, or people just leave it out in the street and it's very dirty and
obviously causing a lot of problems for the environment in England.
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR IDEA IN SPEAKING?

• Give explanation
• Give facts
• Give examples
For example:
My mom is very caring. She takes care of all members of the family. Remembering
one time when was a kid, getting sick, she stayed up almost the whole night to ease
my body temperature with an ice towel.
GROUP ACTIVITY

What are the causes of happiness?

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS?
INTRODUCTION TO PATHWAYS
REFERENCES

• Donald, Sydney G 2001, Study Skills for Language Students: A Practical Guide, Oxford University Press.