UNIT 7 LISTENING

Unit 7 listening

Listening is another receptive skill in this case with listening we are responding to language instead of producing it. Listening is related to meaningful sounds of the language. There are famous authors who establish many definitions about what listening is like for example Lisa Downs says that “the word listening is defined as making an effort to hear something: to pay attention or heed. It is different from hearing, which is the psychological process of the ear absorbing sound waves and transferring them along neutral pathways to parts of the brain. ” (Downs, 2008) I agree with this statement because listening is to pay attention in order to understand what others say.  At this point, it is relevant to mention that listening involves understanding of spoken language, because it is generally less planned and it is not mandatory to structure as in the case of writing language. As can notice when we speak it is difficult to organize properly our ideas or because on the interaction we can say incomplete sentences or utterances, hesitations simple grammar and general vocabulary so in some cases it can cause misunderstanding because of some inappropriate words that we can use unconsciously.  The same as in the other skills, listening also has different subskills : listen for gist/global understanding, specific information detail or to infer attitude. In listening we also have listening intensively and extensively. It depends on the amount of information we need to listen for. i would like to teach listening to my students through interesting games such as "which one is it" a funy game in which students should identify different words with similar spelling.

Pictures related to the difference between "listening 1and hearing 2" 

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video about how to teach listening

Bibliografy:

Downs, L. J. (2008). listening skills training. United States of America.

5 Easy Listening Games for ESL Beginners

En el texto: (Busy Teacher, 2015)

Bibliografía: Busy Teacher, (2015). 5 Easy Listening Games for ESL Beginners. [online] Available at: http://busyteacher.org/14765-5-easy-listening-games-esl-beginners.html [Accessed 23 Apr. 2015].