How to teach listening & vocabulary
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HOW TO TEACH LISTENINGDulce Vargas Daetz
Lourdes Catalán
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LISTENING Listening is the ability to identify and
understand what others are saying.
What does listening involve ?What does listening involve ? Identifying information. Searching memories. Relating that information to those
memories. Filling it in the proper spot. Creating a new place for it.
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WHY TEACH LISTENING?
Students hear different accents and varieties.
Listening helps students to acquire language subconsciously.
Listening is a receptive skill. Education. Mass communication.
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PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Let students understand how foreigners speak English and build students sensitivities.
All teachers can do is give them some guidelines provide an opportunity for meaningful practice and trust they will learn these things for themselves. ( Buck,1995)
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HOW TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR LISTENING TASKS?
Make it relevant to students ( interesting) Provide background knowledge. Pre-Listening exercise to activate content. Use a variety of activities.
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LISTENING ACTIVITIES TO OVERCOME THE DIFFICULTIES
Giving them charts/categories Asking questions ahead of time. Showing pictures/charts. Discussing the topic first. Describing the context. Role playing the situation. Providing key word list. Brainstorming(situations/pros/cons) Predicting Doing follow-ups that allows them to connect
directly with their lives.
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WHAT A DIFFICULT TASK…
Teaching listening skills is one of the most difficult tasks for any ESL teacher.
Sometimes students feel frustrated because they find listening difficult… Why?
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DIFFICULTIES Students are trying to understand every word. Students go back trying to understand what a
previous word meant. Students just don’t know the most important words. Students don’t recognize the words they know. Students have problems with different accents. Students get tired. Students have mental block. Students are distracted. Students cannot cope without images. Students have hearing problems.
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Encourage your students to do their best.
Make sure students know what they are listening for before you start listening.
Give questions to check students comprehension.
Check for any words that your students may not know.
Pre-ListeningPre-Listening
TIPSTIPS
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Check for any words that your students may not know.
Short listening.
Stop the recording.
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WHILE - LISTENING Try to play the recording once for overall
comprehension and then for specific details.
Take notes ( dates, places, people).
Repeat the recording especially in the difficult parts.
TIPSTIPS
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AFTER / POST- LISTENING Compare their notes in small groups.
Encourage debates and answer questions.
Write a summary of the main points and then compare.
Make a list of any new vocabulary.
TIPSTIPS
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Teachers have to try to use as many different sources of listening material as they can.
advertisements, news programs, poetry, songs,
extracts from plays, speeches, lectures, telephone conversations, informal dialogues.
Here are some suggestions :Here are some suggestions :
ImportantImportant
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IDEAS TO MAKE THE BEST LISTENING ACTIVITIES EVER
Reduce distractions and noise during the listening segment.11
make sure the equipment produces acceptable sound quality.22Read or play the text a total of 2-3 times. 33
Play a video clip with the sound off and ask students to make predictions about it.44
55 Give students a listening task to do between classes.
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OTHER LISTENING ACTIVITIES Follow-up activities
-More listening-Writing activities-Role-playing
Use activities to wake up ss-Jazz chants-Jokes-Puzzles
-Poems
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HOW TO TEACH VOCABULARY
Dulce Vargas Daetz
Lourdes Catalán
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Step 1 : Presenting new words Step 2 : Helping ss remember new words. Step 3: Making sure ss make the
new words their own. Online resourses.
Teaching Tips Teaching Tips
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Using visual images. Using gestures & actions. Showing lexicial relations. Words in context. Guessing Predicting Other techniques.
Step 1Step 1Presenting new wordsPresenting new words
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Realia Pictures Masking Drawing scales
Using visual Using visual images images
Using Using gestures & gestures &
actionsactions
Mime Gesture Facial
expression action
Showing Showing lexical lexical
relationsrelations
Synonyms Antonyms Collocatio
n Prefixes &
suffixes
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Dialogues Role play Drama Stories Songs Rhymes &
poems videos
Words in Words in contextcontext Guessing / Guessing /
predictingpredicting
Stories, characters, etc.
Other Other techniquestechniques
Using a dictionary.
Explaining Describing Defining the
context translating
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Using memorizing games & activities. Using review games. Learning with friends.
Step 2Step 2Helping students remember new wordsHelping students remember new words
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Giving directions Picture dictation Matching words Labeling words Searching words Sequencing words Guessing words Eliminating
words. Classifying words.
Using memorizing Using memorizing games & activitiesgames & activities
Review Review GamesGames
Wordsearch games Picture labeling Crosswords Bingo Dominoes Puzzles Charts or survey for
their peers.
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Practice words with a classmates or in a group.
Teach a word to a member of the family or peer.
Make and play word game with friends.
Peer test.
Socio-affectivelySocio-affectivelyStudents can :Students can :
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Vocabulary records system. Personalizing the new words
Step 3Step 3Making sure students makeMaking sure students make the new words their own the new words their own
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In a alphabetical order. By topic or situation. By grammatical groups. By color sets. By story features.
Vocabulary record system- 1Vocabulary record system- 1
Vocabulary books Vocabulary books
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Marking word stress. Adding pictures. Putting and L1 translation. Putting the word into context. Adding a synonym. Mapping a word family.
Vocabulary record system- 2Vocabulary record system- 2
Personal dictionary ( word notebook)Personal dictionary ( word notebook)
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Keeping a learning log ( blogs). Keeping a diary ( blogs ) Creative writing by using newly
learned words or phrases. Looking for recently learned words in
storybooks, the internet, the newspapers, etc. and noticing how they are used.
Personalize the new wordsPersonalize the new words
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Self-test. Look for patterns in words. Plan & organize a vocabulary record
keeping system. Learn words in their preferred ways . Reflect on learning and reviewing
regularly. Monitor vocabulary learning.
Meta-cognitively , learners learn Meta-cognitively , learners learn how to how to
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