1. When listeners listen to a text and try to formulate the main ideas(s) of the text, which
sub-skill are they developing?
Listening for gist
2. Spontaneity problems for language learners:
brevity of chunks, pronunciation, vocab, grammar, noise, redundancy, non-repetition
3. Sub-skills for listening:
1. General listening
2. listening for specific information
3. listening for the message
4. following
instructions
5.predicting
6. listening for gist
7. discerning attitude
4. How to structure an effective listening lesson:
1. opening
2. introduction of new material
3. guided practice
4. independent practice
5. closing
5. Strategies for developing student's
listening skills questions and answers
short
dialogues
short
passages
reordering
information
information
transfer
using humor to develop listening
skills dictation
jigsaw listening
6. Activities for listening
Add on, pass teh message, think of a verb, what's the word?, hands up!, missing word, that's
not right
7. Speaking is
, generally though of as teh first productive skill, writing is 2nd.
8. Speaking is seen as
intuitively the most
important
9. Fluency