How to Teach Listening

I. Definition of Listening
II. Listening Comprehension
 Two Types of Listening Comprehension
III. Listening Skill
What is Listening?
What is listening?

An active process in which the listener

plays a very active part in constructing the
overall message that is eventually exchange
between listener and speaker.

The ability to identify and understand

what others are saying.
 The Importance of Teaching Listening

Listening Comprehension
Is anything but a passive and active
process in which listener must discriminate
between sounds, understand vocabulary and
structures, interpret stress and intonation,
retain what was gathered in all of the above,
and interpret it within the immediate as well as
the largest socio-cultural context of the
utterance.
 Two Listening Comprehension

Listeners
Intermediate Listening
 Listening Skills
Processing Sound
 Segment the scream of sound and recognize word
boundaries.
Ex: I like it
Sounds /ai'laikit/ and 'I li kit'
 Recognize contracted forms.
Ex: I'd have gone to London if I'd known about it
 Recognize the vocabulary being used.
 Recognize sentence and clause boundaries in speech.
 Processing Sound
 Recognize stress and patterns and speech
rhythm.
 Recognize stress on longer words, and the
effect of rest of the word.
 Recognize the significance of language-related
(paralinguistic) features, most obviously
intonation.
 Recognize changes in pitch, tone and speed of
delivery.
Processing Meaning
 G. White list under the following headings all the
subskills that go to make up the overall skill of
listening.

 Perception skills
 Language skills
 Knowledge of the world
 Dealing with information
 Interacting with a speaker
 Listening Sequence

Pre-listening

Brainstorming
Visual
Opinion and ideas
Realia
While-listening

 Listening for gist

 Listening for details

While-listening

 Inferring

 Participating actively
While-listening

 Note-taking

 Dictation
While-listening

 Listen and do
Post-listening

 Discussion

 Checking and summarizing