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Listening in the curriculum

sek I: communicative competences; methods

sek II: funktonal communicative competences

listening in the context of language skills

  • receptive skill with the medium of a spoken text

similarities of listening and reading

  • receptive but not passive skills
  • indeed active skills (discriminate between sounds, understand vocabulary,...)
  • goal: make student a proficient listener
  • both skills involve anticipating, guessing, interpreting,..
  • tools for understanding
  • 2 varieties: listening - hearing, reading - seeing

differences between listening and reading

  • medium (sound vs print)
  • context
  • information

why is listening difficult?

  • several skills need to be mastered
  • processing sound and meaning
  • interference (noise, other people talking,..)
  • Speed
  • not controllable by learner
  • normally not repetitive

putting listening into classroom

  • pre listening task: ex. collecting word that are related with topics
  • listening task: finding answers, notes on what people talk about
  • post listening task: retelling story, role play,...
  • audiomaterial is oftentimes not authentic

principles of teaching listening

  • activate prior knowledge
  • teach vocabulary to understand audio
  • use range of listening material
  • use authentic language and context