EN 2203: Listening in English IV
Cloze listening
· Focus: Listening
comprehension
· Activity: Listen
to the short lecture / speech etc. As you listen, read the text. Listen a
few times. Then complete each blank with one of the words given below. There
are more words than blanks.
Listening to unscripted spontaneous conversations
· Text types:
conversations, dialogues, a long answer to a question, sports commentaries
· Types of
activities:
- Students listen to dialogues, conversations that
took place at a party, in a meeting etc. and talk about characters, possible
situations, settings
- Identify language functions and their exponents:
repetitions, rephrasing, hesitations, contracted forms, incomplete sentences,
accents, colloquialisms
Processing authentic video materials
· Silent viewing:
students view video material without sound to consider what is going on and
guess what the speakers are doing and saying
· Soundtrack only:
students hear the sound track without the picture and speculate on what the
speakers look like, the setting, and the location
· Beginning only:
students view the beginning of a sequence, and then predict what will happen
next
· Ending only:
students view the ending and consider what happened earlier
Listen and make appropriate inferences
Infer views and attitudes while listening
and after listening. Discuss in groups
Problem solving – integrated activities
· Focus: comprehend
content to solve problems through their use of both bottom-up and top-down
processes.
· Activities: e.g.
The students are detectives listening to a report of a murder. As they listen
they complete a grid on the alibis of the suspects. Based on what they hear,
they have to discuss and narrow down the suspects to select the murderer.
Ref: Gebhard J.G. 2009 Teaching English as a
Foreign or Second Language
Extensive listening
· Focus: global
understanding of spoken language – lectures, speeches, stories, long
conversations
· Types of
activities:
- Condensing – the listener outlines or takes note on
a lecture, speech etc, and compare with others.
- Speaking as follow up to listening activities:
debates, interview, role play, dramatization, writing essays.
