Teaching Listening and Speaking

 

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Today's blog is going to talk about "Teaching Listening and Speaking". Have you ever taught listening and speaking for young learners?

As we know, when we want to teach them we must be patiently and have a good skill there.

Firstly, we have to know what is listening and speaking.

 

• LISTENING
  

Listening is the conscious processing of the auditory stimuli that have been perceived through hearing.

So, What the differences between hearing listening?

Of course, differently.

Listening is the process of hear something with thoughtful attention, while Hearing is the process of perceiving sounds, happens without effort. You can hear something even when you don't want to hear and not trying to hear it.

There are 2 strategies we can do in teach listening for young learners:

1. BOTTOM-UP => Interpreting the sound linguistically and gaining meaning.

2. TOP-DOWN => Interpreting the message through the context (Background of knowledge)

According to  Shin and Crandal (2014), there are 7 principles when designing listening activities for young learner:

1. Prepare your lines carefully.

2. Use listening activities that reflect real-life learning.

3. The listening activities should be developmentally appropriate.

4. Use a variety of techniques to make listening Comprehensible Input (CI). 

    CI is language input that can be understood by listeners despite them not understanding all the     words and structures in it. It is described as one level above that of the learners if it can only        just be understood.

    According to Krashen's theory of language acquisition, giving learners this kind of input helps them acquire language naturally, rather than learn it consciously.

5. Check their comprehension using varieties of response types.

6. Keep listening active.

7. Equip your students with intelligent guesswork strategies.

    Brewster, Ellis, and Girard (2004)Predicting: learners guess what they will be listening to next.Guessing from context: learners guess the meaning of a word through the context given.Recognizing discourse patterns and markers: learners understand signal words, such as first, then, finally, but, so, etc.

• SPEAKING 
  

According to Nunan (in kayi 2006:1) speaking is the delivery of language through the mouth.

It means language producing of the process to deliver some information or message with each others. 

So, what should be we do in teach speaking for young learners?

Yeah, of course we have to do it accuracy and fluency. 

Where Accuracy is the extent to which students’ speech matches what people actually say when they use the language; while Fluency is the extent to which speakers use the language quickly and confidently, with few hesitations or unnatural pauses, false starts and word searches.

There are some principles in teaching speaking for young learners:

• Build classroom routines in English ( Build up classroom routines practical using real-life activities)
  
• Use authentic & appropriate speaking activities
• Use negotiation strategies
•  Engage students.
• Don't correct errors explicitly.
• Use a variety of activities to improve both accuracy & fluency, For example, make a conversation between teacher and students in daily activities in classroom.

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Maybe that is all that I can share you about some information in Teaching Listening and Speaking. I hope this information can helpful for us to teach young learners. Thanks for your attention, stay healthy always, and see you on my next blog, bah bye.....

 

  

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