Listening, Speaking and Understanding

Listening and Speaking - Teaching Techniques

Listening

• Visual prompts and illustrations

• Not using listening tasks with similar sounds

• Previous background information before doing the listening.

• Divide the audio into short pieces

Listening

• Allow them to do the listening without complete or respond to any task

• Verify if they understand what they have to do

• Not asking them to take notes while listening

• Replace written tasks with oral exercises. Similar type task types as with reading.

Multiple Choice

Why it is important to not ask them to do some notes while they are listening?

• They can misunderstand the phonemes and do wrong notes.

• Note-taking is

  troublesome as it is hard for them to divide

  attention between listening and writing.

Speaking

• Encourage the participate communicative activities gradually

• Give time to rehearsal their speech.

• Explain rules structures and models

• Allow them to give short answers

• Pre-teach vocabulary and grammar