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Listening and Speaking skills - Coggle Diagram
Listening and Speaking skills
Listening🎶
🧏♂️
Psycholinguistic Processes 📝
Bottom-up ⬆️
"Specific details" - From the little idea to the general
It focus on sounds, words, grammatical structures
Top-down⬇️
"General idea"
- Understand the meaning
7 Principles of listening✅
Use a variety of techniques to make listening input comprenhensible.
(Repetition, gestures)
Check comprehension using a variety of response types.
(Doing,choosing ,conversing,etc)
Use listening activities that are developmentally appropiate
(Activities according their age )
Keep listening active
( Always give learners listening tasks)
Use listening activities that reflect real-life listening (
Songs, movies and chants
)
Equip your Ss with intelligent guesswork strategies
(Prediction before the audio or after)
Prepare teacher talk (
Use simple vocabulary
)
What is listening? 🤷♀️
It is an active process that requires different kinds of skills and strategies.
Speaking 📢
"Fluency" VS. "Accuracy" 🔄
Fluency
It means you speak easily, quickly and with few pauses. "Speed -Pronunciation -Intonation"
Accuracy
It means you speak correctly the target language, with very few mistakes.
What is speaking?🤷♀️
Speaking is the language skill that represent the main mode of communication
If you understand the context, know the appropiate use of the word and can pronounce it, then you can communicate effectively.👏
7 Principles of teaching speaking ✅
Use a variety of activities to improve accuracy and fluency.(
classify the activities into controlled, guided and independent practice)
Activities that reflect real-life communication
(Songs, chants, raps🎤, etc.)
Build classroom interaction-Give Ss opportunities to participate
(Repetition, Q&A🔁,etc.)
Equip your Ss with negotation strategies
(I don’t know🤷♀️.I’m sorry, could you repeat that?)
Keep the speaking environment active
(do not correct errors explicitly)
❌
Build classroom routines in English
(Greeting you and each other👋,saying the day’s date📆, etc)
Activities that are developmentally appropiate
(Activities according their age 🧸and their background knowledge📂)