TEACHING LISTENING
PRESENTED BY

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What kinds of listening should be used in
class?
2. Point out some listening problems faced by
your students. Suggest possible solutions
to these problems.
3. Discuss the bottom-up and top-down
processing in teaching listening.
4. Follow-up activity

KINDS OF LISTENING
According to Harmer (1998:98), there are two
kinds of listening material:

Authentic listening material is unscripted
material or pre-recorded announcements,
telephone messages, lectures, plays, news
broadcasts, interviews, other radio program
stories read aloud, etc.

Realistic listening material is scripted
material.

KINDS OF LISTENING (continued)
NOTE
Authentic listening material may cause
problems to students, especially to beginners


SOME LISTENING PROBLEMS FACED BY
THE STUDENTS

Students have to go with the speed of the
voice (s) when listening. If they fail to
recognize a word or phrase they have not
understood and stop to think about it, they
often miss the next part of the tape and are
falling behind in terms of comprehension.

SOME LISTENING PROBLEMS FACED BY
THE STUDENTS (continued)

Students might meet problems caused by informal spoken
language which has a number of unique features including the
use of
- Incomplete of utterances (e.g. Dinner? Instead of “Is
dinner ready?”)
- Repetitions (e.g. I’m absolutely sure, absolutely sure you
know that she’s right)
- Hesitations (e.g. yes, well, umm, yes, possibly, but, er…)
- Tone of the voice (high pitch or low pitch)
- The intonation used by the speakers
- Accent
- Background noise