Bài giảng Phương pháp giảng dạy Tiếng Anh - Chapter 10: How to teach listening

Chapter 10:
How to teach listening
I. Reasons for teaching listening
 Letting Ss hear different varieties & accents
e.g. American English, British English
dialects, accents, pronunciation &grammar
 Helping Ss to acquire language subconsciously
 Listening: a language skill 
II. Kinds of listening
 authentic ~ non-authentic material
 Different kinds of tapes/ CDs
e.g. announcements, conversations,
telephone exchanges, lectures, plays, 
news broadcasts, interviews, radio programs 
 Learners’ needs, levels & interests 
determine kinds of listening materials & tasks
III. Special characteristics of listening
 Speed of speaker the same for everybody
 Informal spoken language has unique 
features such as incomplete utterances 
(Dinner?), hesitations (well, ummm, er)
 Other spoken factors: tone of voice, 
intonations, rhythm & background noise
 because of these special characteristics, Ss
must be well-prepared for listening 
IV. Principles
 Tape recorder as important as tape
 Preparation: vital (teacher & Ss)
 Once not enough
 Ss: responding to content & language
 Different stages different tasks
 Good teachers exploiting listening texts 
to the full 
V. Listening sequences
 Example 1 (beginners)
 Example 2 (elementary learners)
 Example 3 (intermediate)
 Example 4(upper intermediate)
(Read these examples in the textbook –
page 99-108)
VI. Using video
 Kinds of video learners’ levels & 
interests
 Advantages: richer; speakers can be 
seen; their clothes, their body 
movements, location & background 
information
 Problems: Ss’ less attention to what 
they are hearing, uncritically & lazily 
Techniques for videos
 Playing the tape/VCD/DVD w/o sound
 Playing but covering the picture
 Freezing the picture
 Dividing the class half (half the class face 
the screen; the other half sit with the 
backs to it; the ‘screen’ half describe the 
visual images to the ‘wall’ half