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INTEGRATING LISTENING & SPEAKING SKILLS - Coggle Diagram
INTEGRATING LISTENING & SPEAKING SKILLS
INTRODUCTION
Listening and speaking are, regardless of who the people using the language are, at least as important as the other skills to communicate (Raimes, 1983).
It is undeniable that
these two skills are core to communication
. These skills are normally integrated in real life.
Listeners do not always just listen to someone, but they also comment to the speaker or ask questions for clarification. The most essential issue for the learners should be to understand what they are listening to and to be able to give appropriate responses orally.
The process of integrating language skills involves linking them together in such a way that what has been learnt and practiced through the exercise of one skill is reinforced and perhaps extended through further language tasks which bring different skills into use.
METHOD
An
information-gap task
is a task where learners have the lack of the needed information to complete a task and they are in need of listening or speaking to each other in order to complete the task as in real-life.
BENEFITS OF INFORMATION-GAP TASK
Enhance the opportunity of speaking practice and highlight the real communication
Improve students motivation
When they are integrated through
information-gap tasks,
students might see the actual outcome and become more willing to practice to achieve more success in communicating their ideas.
Students able to cooperate and share their information by speaking or listening to each other.
Provides the involvement of all students into the tasks while at the same time fostering student-centered learning in the classroom.
CHALLENGES FACED BY TEACHERS
Some teachers do not prefer information-gap tasks thinking that the class may get out of control which may cause barriers in the communication process.
One of the challenges that teachers meet in the classroom is motivating the students to speak in the target language.
Students who are less confident are not willing to speak.
Teachers need to teach speaking and listening skills in an interactive way.
It is the teacher’s task to comprehend and make use of how closely listening is related to the speaking skill and how listening can be integrated with speaking through information-gap tasks