1st Extensive Reading & Listening Forum

February 4th, 2014 Meisei University

Extensive Listening
in- and outside classroom
getting used to listening with prosodic patterns
Maria Gabriela SCHMIDT
University of Tsukuba

Teaching a foreign language

Phonetics reduced to pronunciation Neglect of prosodic elements Ignorance on Sound and Meaning

In classroom Auditive / sound input is not enough

Listening exercises are overloaded

Supporting Extensive Listening

through
Understanding the information structure of language

A B C

Prosodic intonation patterns Brain mind friendly Holistic exercises

> Enjoying listening in a foreign language

A - Prosodic patterns

Word accent: Who do you feel?

PhilosoPHIE

phiLOsophy

StuDENT
AuGUST

STUdent August

Prosodics in sentences
In German the verb is distributed in a sentence on the second and the final position. In German is the verb on the second and the final position in a sentence distributed. WHAT IS THE PROSODIC INTONATION PATTERN IN GERMAN AND IN ENGLISH?

German sentence

English sentence
Rising up the voice and falling in cascades

French sentence

In wave, going up and down, slightly up in the end

And Japanese?

sumimasen, irasyaimase

ya ya ko shi ya
meandering (dagou) with a down tone in the end

B - Brain and mind learning / listening /

think

memory
routine, automatic

system 2 aware, slow, controlling

system 1 unaware, fast, autonomous

Supporting Extensive Listening

German Textbooks on extensive listening

Stufen Geschichten von Lunija

Schritte, Schritte International, Schritte plus > photo-listening-story

Teaching Extensive Listening Holistic activities in class

in the classroom: > explaining the back-ground of prosodics

outside the classroom: moving and talking

Extensive Listening Individual exercises

> Watching and listening wdrmaus.de/sachgeschichten (5 min.) neuneinhalb (ARD) (9-12 min.) > Listening
Gute-Nacht-Geschichten (3-5 min.) Real story telling: read a story, let the students tell stories (Japanese or others)

Consider for extensive listening:

The linguistic level Age and interest Topic easy to catch Something real, not too complex Repetition needed Starting with 3 times a week 5 min. Becoming confident, training patience Long lasting timeframe