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    Developing listening skills

    Even though we describe the skills in foreign language separately, it is impossible to teach only
    one of them in a single lesson. They always overlap. The act of listening is classified as
    a perceptive skill and mistakenly considered by learners a passive activity. But the listener is also
    active in the process of listening since hearing and listening are different concepts. In order for
    the listener to decode the whole delivered text by the act of speech, he must recall his knowledge
    of the topic, grammar structures and vocabulary. And after all: it is not possible to participate in
    a conversation if you don't understand what the other speaker says.
    Students can improve their listening skills and Gain valuable language input through a
    combination of extensive and intensive listening materials and procedures. This provides the
    perfect opportunity to hear voices other than the teacher's ( pace, stress, accent), enables
    students to acquire good speaking habits and helps students to improve their pronunciation.
    The texts for listening vary from stories and everyday conversations in specific situation to
    interviews and academic descriptions.
    Nowadays course books include a large range of listening activities or even listening lessons in
    each unit ( especially those intended for intensive learning).
    Listening activities have many advantages. There is a large variety of recordings and videos
    online, or they are included in the course book pack, it is easy to be stored and classified by
    length and difficulty, they could be saved on device( like smartphone) or online. Unlike real life
    speech, the recordings could be paused and repeated. There are some disadvantages too. Usually
    listening activities include pre-listening instructions, a task for finding general information and
    a task after that for finding specific information. In real life, we rarely have the opportunity to
    pause the speaker and sometimes it is not appropriate to ask for repetition. Another fact
    concerning the same aspect is that the texts in the course books are especially designed for a
    specific purpose, which is not very realistic. All students listen at the same speed and same
    difficulty, but we often work with mixed proficiency/ ability classes.
    Despite the pointed disadvantages, doing listening activities would always enrich learners’
    language skills. Bear mind that many methodologists state that repeating the recording more than
    once or twice is still better than giving extensive instructions before and during the activity.
    Types of listening activities:
    - gist listening and listening for detail
    - intensive and extensive listening
    Depending on the expected outcome, The Listening activities are: no overt response ( like
    instructions), requiring short responses, requiring longer responses and extended responses.
    The stages of listening activities are:
    - pre-listening - introducing the topic, asking for predictions and opinions, pre-teaching or
    revising vocabulary, giving instructions
    - while listening - filling gaps, marking notes
    - post listening - answering questions, discussion, interactive tasks.
    The role of the teacher is to prepare the students for the activity, to operate with the player or
    computer, to organise the classwork ( alone, in pairs, in groups), to give feedback, motivate
    and encourage the students.

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