unit9TeachingListening-PPT课件

3. Characteristics of the listening process (P139)


Spontaneity Context Visual clues Listener’s response Speaker’s adjustment
1) Spontaneity We often listen to people speaking spontaneously and informally without rehearsing what they are going to say ahead of time. 2) Context The context of listening is usually known in real life. The situation usually helps us predict what we are going to hear.
I The importance of teaching listening



Listening is one of the four basic skills of a language. Listening is becoming more and more necessary to understand spoken English in many situations: face-to-face conversations telephone calls business meetings Lectures Speeches television
Unfamiliar topics & words
Background information
length
2. What do we listen to in everyday life?
Task 3: Situations where Chinese people may need to listen to English : (P138)
Principles for teaching listening
3) Visual Clue While listening, the speakers’ facial expressions, gestures and other body language will provide us visual clues which can help us understand and predict what we hear. 4) Listener’s response Most of the listening allows the listener to responds the speaker, whether they understand or not. 5) Speaker’s adjustment The speaker can adjust the way of speaking according to the listener’s reactions.
Unit 9 Teaching Listening
Outline




1. Listening problems and English situations 2.The characteristics of the listening process 3.The principles and models of teaching listening 4. The common activities in teaching English
Reasons why it is difficult
Listener Neglect it’s importance Speaking ways distracted Poor vocabulary volume Lack of practice
speed
Speaker Listening material
Task 1


Difficulties encountered Reasons why it is difficult
Difficulties encountereear the words can hear but cannot understand Quickly forget what is heard. Neglect the next part when thinking about meaning Unable to form a mental representation from words heard. Do not understand subsequent parts of input because of earlier problems
Reasons why it is difficult



Different speakers produce the same sounds in different ways. ( dialects and accents, stresses, rhythms, intonations, mispronunciations) The speed of the input of spoken material can not be controlled; Spoken material is often heard only once. And the listener cannot pause the speaker to work out the meaning. Background noise Do other tasks, such as note-taking, writing down directions or messages from telephone calls.