Teaching
Listening
The goal of teaching listening skills is to produce students who can use listening strategies to maximize their comprehension. To help students achieve the goal there are of course many things that teachers should consider. Yet, the consideration should be mostly on the process of listening rather that the product of listening. If focus on the product of listening only then the tendency is that we do not teach listening rather we test listening. Then what are the strategies? The following articles discuss theories about the development of listening skills, tips on how to deliver a listening activity and some practical tips on listening activities that can be performed by teachers and students while learning a language.
The links below inspire us with activities/Lesson plan that can be adapted to teach listening
- Listening Skills Lesson
Plan
- Games to improve
lsitening for Elementary Students
- Teaching listening with
songs
In addition to those theories and activities for teaching listening, what should also be taken into account is the materials to be used. Listening is really not only a classroom activity for language learners but should also be a recreational activity outside classroom. Listening will be much more meaningful if what to listen is really of students’ interest and students has option to do that, such what, when and wherever they want to listen.
Podcast
is one technology that may enable that. It will give teachers easy access to
authentic listening materials wherever and whenever they want as long as
there is internet connection. Students can also do the same. Moreover, with podcast
both students and teachers can build their own library of their interest. So,
What is Podcast?
PODCAST:
PODCAST
was originally from the 'audio blogging' activity in 1980's. but then the term
podcast was coined following the introduction of iPOD by the Apple Company
in 2001. The term Podcast itself was introduced for the first time by a British
journalist, Ben Hammersley in 2004. He blended the word 'Broadcast' and 'iPod'
into Podcast.
The idea of podcast was actually broadcasting of media than can be in the form of audio, video, or even document files. The broadcasting was done through the internet and what more is that subscription is enabled, and those media is downloadable and that makes audience can access the media easily by using either PC, MAC or Portable devices, such as IPOD or Android Devices. For further information about PODCASTING see here:
Few examples of podcast can be checked here:
So.. Have you got an idea what podcast is? The following videos show how to
SUBSCRIBE to a PODCAST SERVICE by using A PODCAST RECEIVER Software, for example GPODDER and iTUNES:
if
you have problem locating the URL address of the podcast you want to subscribe
check the following video:
Once
you have the URL of the podcast you can the start subscribing to the podcast feed
by using GPODDER or ITUNES.
Technology
and The teaching of listening skills:
The
following slides by Paula hodgson outline some of the important ideas about
teaching listening with technology:
One kind of technology that is ubiquitous today is PODCAST. Then, how we can use podcast for language teaching? and why are the potentials that it offers for language teaching and learning. The following articles provide answers for the two questions:
In addition to the above mentioned podcasting sources, the following websites provide podcasts though not specifically for the purpose EFL teaching and learning but may still be usefull for EFL teaching and learning since they give chance to learners to listen to authentic listening materials which are based on various topics that might interest EFL students.
For
this time, I have tried a Soundcloud for recording my discussion with my
friends which discussed about cultural differences. Click it here to listen.
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