Listening and SpeakingNHLANHLA TSOTETSI

INTRODUCTION

• Listening skills are ways to help you listen to something more effectively.

CONT……….

• Teaching listening and speaking skills has become vital to learning a second language.

• Listening was thought of as a mastery of skills, such as identifying key words and recognizing reduced words.

• It then became bottom-up and top-down, followed by prior knowledge and schema.

• The current view is that a listener is an active participant that uses facilitation, monitoring, and evaluating strategies

WHY IS LISTENING IS IMPORTANT.

To avoid communication errors. Key to success. Learn something

new.

Basic Types Of Listening

Active listening Selective listening Ignoring listening Emphatic listening

The Teaching of Listening

• 2 views: listening as comprehension and listening as acquisition.

• Listening as comprehension is based on the main function of listening in second language learning is to facilitate understanding of spoken discourse.

• Spoken discourse is instantaneous, unplanned, uses hesitations, reduced forms, fillers and repeats, and a linear structure

The Teaching of Speaking

Employs more vague or generic words than written language.

Show variation between formal and informal speech.

May be planned or unplanned

Difference between hearing and listening…

Hearing and Listening are not same. Hearing: Hearing is with the senses. Ears pick

up sound waves and then transported to our brain.

Listening: Listening is with the mind. Communication process and,

to be successful is an active

process.

Great Listeners

MIND READER: Ask what the person is thinking or feeling.

REHEARSER: Let the customer finish their thoughts before determining what question to ask next.

FILTERER: Be aware of your own assumptions. DREAMER: Stay present.

Importance Of Speaking Skills

Ability to convey your information in a

proper way Ability to stand out from the rest Career enhancement Encouraging people to communicate with

each other.

Implications for Teaching

What kinds of speaking skills does the course focus on? Identifying teaching strategies for each kind of talk

Talk as Interaction: “small talk”, personal experiencesTalk as Transaction: role play, small group activitiesTalk as Performance: examples of speeches

REFERENCE

Richards, Jack C. Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice.

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