UNIT 7 - LISTENING

           Unit 7 is about listening. As all of us know listening is one of the four language skills. It is a receptive skill like reading. Therefore, this skill involves making sense of the meaningful sounds of language. As future teachers, it is necessary to know that learning to listen involves learning to be able to understand a range of relevant text types. However, most of students have their own reasons for listening. For example; listening for gist or for a global understanding. "Listening involves a sender , a message and a receiver. It is the psychological process of receiving, attending to constructing meaning from and responding to spoken and/or non verbal messages" Rost M. (1990). I consider that students will learn a lot if teachers give them the opportunity to listen to many sources of spoken language and also ask them to listen what they want, so this exposes students to arrange different text types and have fun when listening. In addition, I think learners should develop strategies for dealing with the challenge of real language, while simplified texts allow them to build up their confidence because effective listening skill leads effective communication. To sum up, as teacher  I will help students to develop this receptive skill by providing them introductory activities as pre-teaching key words, and playing some interesting audios according the topic they are learning.

You can find more interesting information about this topic on this links:

http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm

http://www.slideshare.net/SivathanuN/listening-skill-development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zNx_IarUw

References:

- Rost M. (1990). Listening in language learning. London: Longman.

http://www.the-criterion.com/V4/n1/Babita.pdf

- Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.