1. HOW TO TEACH
LISTENING
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2. CONTENT
 Definition
 Why teach listening?
 Teacher‟s and students‟ difficulties
 Top tips
 A successful listening activity
 Listening exercises

3. LISTENING
 Listeningis the ability to identify and
understand what others are saying.
This involves understanding a
speaker's accent or pronunciation,
his grammar and his vocabulary,
and grasping his meaning (Howatt
and Dakin). An able listener is
capable of doing these four things
simultaneously.

4. WHY TEACH LISTENING?
 Students hear different accents
and varieties.
 Listening helps students to
acquire language
subconsciously.
 Listening is a receptive skill.
 Education.
 Mass communication.

5. „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?

6. 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.

7. TOP TIPS
 PRE- LISTENING:
 Tell your students “ DON‟T WORRY”
 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

8.  Check for any words that your students may not
know
 Short listening
 Stop the recording

9.  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

10.  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.

11. REMEMBER!!!
 Try to use as many different sources of
listening material as you can:
advertisements, news programs, poetry,
songs, extracts from plays, speeches,
lectures, telephone conversations,
informal dialogues.

12. A SUCCESSFUL LISTENING
ACTIVITY
 Ideas to make the best listening
activities ever!

13. 1
Reduce distractions and
noise during the
listening segment.

14. 2
 makesure the equipment produces
acceptable sound quality.

15. 3
 Read or play the text a total of 2-3 times.

16. 4
 Playa video clip with the sound off and
ask students to make predictions about it.

17. 5
 Give students a listening task to do
between classes.

18. LISTENING
EXERCISES

31. SOURCES
 http://iteslj.org/Articles/Saricoban-Listening.html
 http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/listenin
g.cfm
 http://es.scribd.com/doc/14427811/How-to-Teach-
English-Jeremy-Harmer
 http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.ht
m
 http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers/articles/why-
your-students-have-problems-with-listening-
comprehension.html