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How to Teach Listening Alice Chiu 2006.03.21 Passive or Active? Is listening a passive or active skill? Listening is considered to involve the active selecting and interpreting of information comingfrom auditory clues so that a listener can identifywhat is happening and what is being expressed. -Richards, JC. 1983. “Listening Comprehension: Approach, design, procedure.” TESOL Quarterly 17:2. What does listening involve? Identifying information Searching memories Relating that information to those memories Filling it in the proper spot (or) Creating a new place for it Using it when needed Effective listeners monitor comprehension associate new information with background knowledge make inferences about unknown words continue listening even if they don’t understand certain words have metacognitive knowledge about the task manage to get the main idea rather than listen word-for-word What interferes with listening comprehension? Unfamiliar vocabulary Grammar Text too long Several people talking Unfamiliar Context Lots of details Topic not interesting Theme not clear Accent Speed Idiomatic speech Task too difficult Unprepared for the discussion Not prepared for the format A lack of background information Principles of teaching listening comprehension Let students understand how foreigners speak English and build students’ sensitivities. All we can do is give them some guidelines, provide an opportunity for meaningful practice and trust they will learn these things for themselves. (Buck, 1995) Buck, G., 1995. How to become a good listening teacher. In Mendelsohn and Rubin 1995. A guide for the teaching of second language listening. San Diego: Dominie Press. 113-130. How do most teachers in Taiwan teach listening comprehension? TTT Approach Test-test-test A sink or swim method The use of passage with multiple-choice questions to teach listening comprehension. If not TTT Approach, then how?. How to prepare students for listening tasks?