HOW TO

TEACH
LISTENING
1. Prasetio Hamsyah
2. Dewi Setyowati
3. Suparni
4. Rini Milasari
CONTENT
Definition
Why teach listening?
Teachers and students difficulties
Top tips
A successful listening activity
Listening exercises
conclusion
 LISTENING
Listening is the ability to identify and
understand what others are saying.
This involves understanding a
speaker's accent or pronunciation, his
grammar and his vocabulary, and
grasping his meaning (Howatt and
Dakin). An able listener is capable of
doing these four things simultaneously.
Different kinds of listening a distinction
can be drawn betweeen intensive and
extensive listening
WHY TEACH LISTENING?
Students hear different
accents and varieties.
Listening helps students to
acquire language
subconsciously.
Listening is a receptive skill.
Education.
Mass communication.
 WHAT A DIFFICULT
TASK
Teaching listening skills is one
of the most difficult tasks for
any ESL teacher.
Sometimes students feel
frustrated because they find
listening difficult Why?
 DIFFICULTIES
Students are trying to understand every word.
Students go back trying to understand what a
previous word meant.
Students just dont know the most important words.
Students dont recognize the words they know.
Students have problems with different accents.
Students get tired.
Students have mental block.
Students are distracted.
Students cannot cope without images.
Students have hearing problems.
 WHILE LISTENING:

Try
to play the recording once for overall
comprehension and then for specific details.

Take notes ( dates, places, people)

Repeat the recording especially in the difficult

parts
 POST-LISTENING:

Compare their notes in small groups.

Encourage debates and answer questions.

Write
a summary of the main points and then
compare.

Make a list of any new vocabulary.

 REMEMBER!!!
Try to use as many different sources of
listening material as you can:

advertisements, news programs, poetry,

songs, extracts from plays, speeches,
lectures, telephone conversations,
informal dialogues, audio and video
 A SUCCESSFUL LISTENING
ACTIVITY
Ideas to make the best listening
activities ever!
 Listening principles
Principle 1 :encourage students
to listen as often and as much
as possible .
Principle 2 : help student to
prepare to listen.
Principle 3 : once may not be
enough.
Principle 4 : encourage student
to respond to the content of a
listening, not just to the
language.
Priciple 5 : different listening
stages demand different
listening tasks.
Priciple 6 : good teachers
exploit listening texts to the
full.
 Audio and Video

Four particular techniques are especially

appropiate for language learners, and are often
used with video footage:
Play the video without sound
Play the audio without the picture
Freeze frame
Dividing the class in half