1. How to do material
for them
Edgar Lucero

2. Agenda
 Why listening and speaking?
 Types of listening and types of speaking
 Material for listening and material for speaking
 What skills can be activated in listening and speaking?

3. Why listening and speaking?
SPEAKING LISTENING
 Conversational discourse  To process and internalize
 Pronunciation linguistic information thru
(intonation, stress, rhythm) reception.
 Accuracy and fluency  To build and rebuild our
schemata in the TL by
 Affective factors processing meanings.
 Clustering, redundancy,  To master different types of
reduced forms. spoken language.
 Performance  To trigger language use for
(type of language, tempo) communication of meanings.

4. Types of Speaking and Listening
Speaking Listening
Talking to oneself
 Imitative Reactive
Responsive
 Intensive
Intensive
 Responsive Interactive
 Transactional Selective
Extensive
Interpersonal
extensive

5. A listening… A lion in love

6. Material for listening
it must…
 Follow a process of pre-, ongoing, and post-listening.
 Not be unidirectional, only receiving.
 Activate schemata and/or background knowledge.
 Activate and develop the skills of meaning
comprehension and negotiation.
 Exercise different types and characteristics of spoken
language.

7. An example of speaking
 Please, join in groups, 6 groups exactly.
 The 3 houses we live in…
 Descriptions
 Advantages
 Disadvantages

8. What skills can be activated in…
Speaking Listening
 Discriminate syntactical features  Recognize pronunciation
in the TL. patterns.
 Recognize and interpret
meanings expressed in different  Distinguish syntactical
ways. boundaries.
 Recognize and interpret  Process speech with its features.
cohesive, coherence, and
rhetorical devices.  Comprehend meaning by
 Infer contexts (leteral or establishing relationships
implied) by connecting among syntactical features.
syntactical features.  Infer and predict contexts.
 Develop and use speaking
strategies.  Develop and use listening
strategies.

9. Considerations for…
Speaking Listening
 Be sure you activate speaking  Be sure you activate listening
skills skills
 Set timing for the activity you  Focus on one type of listening
suggest preferably
 Account for authentic
 Focus on few aspects of listening activities
speaking, don’t try to cover
 Provide pre- and post-
many listening
 Guarantee some individual  Determine what aspects of
practice before performing listening students must focus
 State your role as a teacher on the most