Unit 9 Teaching listening(听力教学).ppt

The focus for today What makes listening so difficult? What do we listen to in our everyday life? What are the characteristics of the listening process? How do people process information in listening comprehension? What are the principles for teaching listening? How can we teach listening effectively? Enlightenments: What enlightenments can you get from the above for your foreign language listening? The process of comprehension begins with the message received, which is analyzed at successive levels of sounds, words, clauses, and sentences, until the intended meaning is arrived at. Comprehension is thus viewed as a process of decoding. Top-down techniques are more concerned with the activation of schemata, with deriving meaning, with global understanding, and with the interpretation of a text. VI. How can we teach listening more effectively? Pre-listening Stage While-listening Stage Post-listening Stage Questions Discuss the following questions with you partners: 1.What tasks/activities should teachers assign to students in the each listening stage? 2. And what are the main purpose of the tasks/activities for each stage? 3.What listening skills should teachers develop students? * * Unit 8 Teaching Listening Warming up questions What are our problems in listening in English? Do you think listening is very difficult for English learners in China? How do most teachers teach listening? What do you think of this kind of teaching? Quick forget what is heard. Do not recognize words they know. Understand the words but not the intended message. Neglect the next part when thinking about meaning. Unable to form a mental representation from words heard. What makes listening so difficult? interviews instructions radio news loudspeaker announcements theatre shows telephone chats committee meetings shopping lessons lectures conversations gossips watching television story-telling II. What do