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what is listening


We hear what is said whether we wish or not. This we cannot call listening. When we listen, we engage our mind actively? There is an element of choice in listening. So there is a difference between listening and hearing. As a term in language teaching, listening means;

 

lending an ear to the spoken word with a purpose to understand the message. It is paying conscious attention to whatever is said.


When our teacher speaks English in the class, most of the students can understand him. The reason is his pace and style being are usually slow. When they come across language spoken fluently without any pauses, they find it difficult to understand. Listening is a very complicated internal process. In this, our ears and mind are solved. When a person is listening to someone, something occurs in his mind. But the psychologist is not sure what happens in mind.

Importance of listening:

According to ''Rivers and Temperley'';

The time that adult spends in communication activities, 45 percent is developed to listening, only 30 percent to speaking, 26 percent to reading, and a mere 9 percent to writing.

That shows the importance of listening in our life. Through listening, we should be able to communicate with the speaker.

We listen to get the information. We also listen to derive pleasure from the language through TV, radios, recordings, and music.

Unfortunately, listening is the skill that is neglecting him in our schools. It is presumed that listening is something natural; there is no need to learn it. The teacher supposes that the student already knows about it. listening is a process that involves not only our ears but minds also. It is a skill that should be learned through practice. This practice should be regular, frequent, graded, and interested.

Types of listening skills:

There are seven types of listening skills;

  • Discriminative listening

  • Biased listening

  • Sympathetic listening

  • Comprehensive listening

  • Empathetic listening

  • Critical listening

  • Informational listening



Activities to improve listening skills:




Activities of listening become varied according to their purpose and objectives. These activities are as follows;

1.Word identification exercises:

The teacher will give the students a list of groups of two words of nearly the same sounds. He will speak out a word and ask the students to tick the word they listened to. This exercise gives practice in catching the correct pronunciation of words in speech.

2.Dictation:

diction is a test of writing. The teacher will speak or read out a passage and the listeners will write it down. This exercise can be simple or difficult, quick or slow according to the level of the class. A continued exercise of this type will improve listening skills.

3.listen and do exercises:

The teacher will ask the student to listen to him carefully and do as instructed. He can proceed like this:

  • draw two circles on the right of your page.

  • Draw a square around them.

  • Draw a bigger circle on the left of the square

  • Write your name above the squire.

4.Checklist exercises:

The teacher will give the student a list of random words or phrases. Then the students will listen to the passage read out by the teacher. They will ask to check the list and give numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 to the words as they occur in the passage.

5.Picture identification exercise:

The student will give a sheet of paper with pictures of persons, things, or numbers. They will listen to a passage read out by the teacher. Based on their listening, they will ask to identify the picture.

6.Question answer exercises:

The teacher will give a list of questions to the students. then, he will read out a passage to them. After this, he will ask them to answer questions.

7.Cloze exercises:

In this exercise, the teacher will give the students a list of words. Then he will read out a passage to them. After this, he will give to them the same passage in written form with blanks. Based on their listening, the student will fill in the blanks.

8.Information transfer exercise:

In this exercise, the student will receive information in verbal form and transfer it into the form of diagrams, lines on the map, graphs labels outlines, and study notes

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