Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TOPIC 1: Principles of
Teaching Listening
and Speaking Skills
- Importance of Listening
- Obtaining comprehensible input in one's first
and any subsequent languages.
- A universal communicative event: we
listen considerably more than we read,
write or speak.
- What is Listening?
- The process of receiving, attending and
understanding auditory messages; that is
messages transmitted through the medium
of sound.
- The process moves through the first 3 steps -
receiving, attending, understanding - in sequence.
Responding or remembering may not follow.
- Listening Process
- Hearing the speaker
- Understand what the speaker is saying
- Making judgement based on
the understanding
- Difference Between Listening & Spoken Language
- Convention of Spoken Language
- Putting words, phrases and sentences together
- Vocalizing what they want to say - pronunciation and intonantion
- Possessing the ability to be reasonably fluent
- Stretching the language they know to cope with new situations
- Interaction is more than just putting a
message together ; responding to what
other people say
- Choosing language that is
appropriate for the person
you are talking to
- Taking turns in a conversation
- Knowing how to interupt
- Knowing how to disagree politely
- Encouraging others to speak
- Expressing interest
- Changing the topic
- Asking one to repeat or
explain what they are
saying
- Factors Affecting Listening Skills
- Clustering - break down speech into smaller groups of words
- Redundancy - rephrasing ideas, repetitions
- Reductions - assimilations, ellisions or contractions
- Hesitations, pauses, false starts
- Difference in intonation and stress patterns
- English varieties and accents
- Factors Affecting Speaking Skills
- Grammatical accuracy
- Pronunciation
- Accent
- Vocabulary
- Appropriate response
- Organisation of ideas
- Fluency
- Enthusiasm