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KAZIM KARABEKİR EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ


Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education

Some Guidelines for


Developing
Listening Materials
(First Part)
Dersin Adı: İngilizce Öğretiminde Ders İçeriği Geliştirme
(Course Content Development in ELT)
Dersin Hocası: Doç. Dr. Savaş Yeşilyurt
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CONTENTS
 The Nature of Listening Skill
 Types of Listening Practice
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The Nature of Listening Skill


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Listening
 Receptive skill

 The first language skill developed in L1 acquisition

 The most unnoticed of the four skills in EFL contexts


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Traditionally, speaking was emphasized more than listening.

However, with the emergence of Comprehension Approach and


Natural Approach more attention was paid to listening.

These approaches put their emphasis on oral perception rather than


production.
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Comprehension Natural Approach


(-based)
 Based on communication
Approach  Vocabulary
 Mental Processes
(cognitivism)  A lot of (interesting)
comprehensible input
 Comprehension of
Language Input  Visual aids

 Listening > Reading >  Listening and Reading (first)


Writing > Speaking  Focus on meaningful
communication (not on form)
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Krashen (1985) stresses the importance of comprehensible


input before language production. This view emphasizes the
role of listening in L2 situations.

Language learning is also «learning to build a MENTAL


MAP OF MEANING», and cognitive maps are built
through listening.
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What makes listening


difficult?
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Process of Listening
 Hearing
 Selecting
 Attending (paying attention)
 Understanding
 Remembering
 Evaluating
 Responding
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Types of Listening Practice


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Classifications for listening


One-way Conventional views: the aim of
Listening listening was to transfer
information through one-way
listening (use of monologues).
Contemporary views: favor two-
way listening similar to every day
interactions (focus on dialogues for
Two-way their dynamicity and their
Listening interactive nature)
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Brown (2001) suggests six Rost’s (2011) classification


types of classroom listening (very similar) consists of:
performances:
 Intensive  Extensive
 Reactive  Selective listening listening

 Intensive  Extensive  Selective  Responsive


listening listening
 Responsive  Interactive  Interactive  Autonomous
listening listening
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Intensive listening
Intensive listening focuses on This analysis may happen at the
such elements as phonology, level of sounds, words, and
syntax, and lexis. grammatical, as well as
pragmatic, units.

It is defined as “listening to a Intensive listening is a good


text closely, with the intention vehicle to practice language–
to decode the input for focused learning.
purposes of analysis”. It involves deliberate learning of
pronunciation, vocabulary,
grammar, and discourse.
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Intensive listening
Activities for intensive listening can be dictation,
elicited repetition, error spotting, and simultaneous
interpretation.
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Selective listening
Selective listening refers to scanning
the audio materials selectively to
«Selective listening is
gather certain information. necessary for more
Selective listening is listening with a extended and more
planned purpose in mind. complex listening activities
in academic contexts»
It refers to attending to only what
you want to hear and turning out
everything else.
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Selective listening
One major difference between The following can be asked for
selective listening and intensive fostering selective listening
listening is that the discourse used skills:
in selective listening is • People’s names
relatively lengthier than that • Dates
used in intensive listening.
• Certain facts and events—
location, situation, context,
It is more based on “the discourse etc.
used in speeches, media broadcast, • Main ideas and/or
stories and anecdotes”. conclusion.
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Interactive listening
Interactive listening refers to The listener receives the
conversational interactions
between listeners and message and provides the
speakers. speaker with feedback.
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Interactive listening
Collaborative tasks, which These tasks promote such skills
require comprehensible output, as regulating turn-taking and
negotiation and meaning seeking feedback through
clarification to arrive at an clarification and confirmation
outcome, can be used for checks.
promoting interactive listening.
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Extensive listening
Extensive listening refers to meaning focused listening
activities for an extended period of time.
Learners are expected to reach full comprehension during
extensive listening by listening to lengthy lectures,
conversations, and broadcasts.

It is more appropriate for the learners at intermediate and


advanced levels of language proficiency.
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Extensive listening
Some extensive listening activities include:
 Watching Movies
 Listening to Radio Programs
 Watching Vodcasts (video on demand multicasting
technology)
 Listening to Podcasts (digital audio files)
 Listening to songs
 Listening to interviews and lectures
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Responsive listening
Responsive listening is a Some examples include:
classroom listening activity
used to elicit immediate  Asking questions
response.
 Giving commands
The goal is the listener’s
response.  Seeking clarification

 Checking comprehension
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Autonomous listening

Autonomous listening refers to independent and


self-directed listening in which the teacher plays
no role.
All types of natural language acquisition are
considered autonomous listening.
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Autonomous listening
The basic element of autonomy is the idea of control:

In autonomous listening, learners have the control /


responsibility for the type of learning such as implicit or
explicit, the type of feedback, and the type of monitoring.

All the intensive, selective, or responsive listening types can be


included in autonomous listening.
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Reference(s)

 Azarnoosh, M., Zeraatpishe, M., Faravani, A., & Kargozari,


H. R. (Eds.). (2016). Issues in materials development.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
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Thank you for your attention.

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