Yohanes Richardus Ricky Darmawan: Listening Skills

Background

Why it is important

  1. Enable the students to understand the meaning and massage behind what they heard.
  1. Enable the students to communicate in English.

Principles

  1. The first skill.

Sub-skills

  1. Listening for gist
  1. Listening for information
  1. Listening for details
  1. Be aware of the objective or goal of the class
  1. Knowing and understanding of the students comprehension level

Barriers and challenges

1.Bad quality of recording

  1. Different dialect and accent
  1. The speed and clarity of the talks (recordd)
  1. Unfamiliar topic
  1. The spoken and written language are two different things

Tips

  1. Understanding the listening
  1. Preparing the students for the listening task.
  1. Let the students to hear the recording as often as required
  1. Explain the difference between spoken and written language

Technological tools

  1. YouTube
  1. Spotify
  1. Audible
  1. Lyricstraing
  1. TikTok

My reflection: Using technology in teaching do not instantly make the teaching activities better. There are quite number of flaws within technology that can bring negative effects if the technological tools are used carelessly. By integrating the technological tools and the other aspects like the learning goals and the understanding of the students level, teaching English can become morr effective