Teaching Listening Skills: Stages – Кафедра ИЯКТ

Teaching LISTENING SKILLS

STAGES

There are three stages of working with an audiotext:

Pre-Listening

This stage does not involve listening. It has two functions:
– lead-in, i.e. it prepares learners to the topic of a recording (Do you like to travel?)
– emphasis on the language that cannot be understood through questions, including some proper names, historical events and the like

While-Listening

This stage is the only one that involves listening process and includes listening to an audiotext and doing exercises that require listening. Scholars proved that the optimal time of the recording is less than two minutes and learners should listen to it at least twice.

Stage 1. Listening for gist

Stage 2. Listening for specific information

Stage 3 (optional). Detailed listening

NOTE! All tasks should be given BEFORE listening so that learners should know WHY they listen and be motivated.

Post-Listening

At this stage learners work with ideas, and mostly productive skills are developed (writing and speaking), e.g. writing an essay, discussions, debate on problems raised in the text.