scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING LISTENING USING AUTHENTIC ECOLOGICAL MATERIALS IN THE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-508
Author(s):  
Luiza R. Zakirova ◽  
Marianna Y. Yashina ◽  
Anna S. Shingareva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Senior Stage ◽  
Teaching Of Listening

Purposes: This article discusses the problem of listening comprehension as an important and integral part of everyday communication. Despite its impact on the process of language learning, the listening skill was for a long time relegated to a marginal place in foreign language curricula. Methodology: The authors describe a great educational value of authentic materials used in a foreign language classroom to motivate, develop and increase listening skills at the senior stage of teaching. They found it necessary to admit that with the advent of communicative language teaching and the focus on proficiency, the teaching of listening started to increase. Obvious attention is paid to the practical use of available Internet resources that deal with ecological problems which are acute and need the urgent solution in contemporary society. Results: The authors made an attempt to prove that listening should be fully integrated into the foreign language curriculum and given considerable "prime time" in-class activities and homework preparation. In addition, the methodological recommendations on the organization of the development of listening skills to improve the overall process of communication are presented.

scholarly journals Listening Skill Requires a Further Look into Second/Foreign Language Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Bozorgian
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Reading History

Current English-as-a-second and foreign-language (ESL/EFL) research has encouraged to treat each communicative macroskill separately due to space constraint, but the interrelationship among these skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) is not paid due attention. This study attempts to examine first the existing relationship among the four dominant skills, second the potential impact of reading background on the overall language proficiency, and finally the relationship between listening and overall language proficiency as listening is considered an overlooked/passive skill in the pedagogy of the second/foreign language classroom. However, the literature in language learning has revealed that listening skill has salient importance in both first and second language learning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of each of four skills in EFL learning and their existing interrelationships in an EFL setting. The outcome of 701 Iranian applicants undertaking International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in Tehran demonstrates that all communicative macroskills have varied correlations from moderate (reading and writing) to high (listening and reading). The findings also show that the applicants’ reading history assisted them in better performing at high stakes tests, and what is more, listening skill was strongly correlated with the overall language proficiency.

Designing an English Curriculum for Everyone

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-108
Author(s):  
Angela Bailey ◽  
Nayibe Rosado ◽  
Lourdes Rey
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Foreign Language Curriculum

In this chapter, the authors demonstrate a practical view of a foreign language curriculum development in Colombia. Within the chapter, they give a brief description of language policies that guided the curriculum; a discussion of the research framework, methods, and data collection; and a reflection of the choices made with regard to education, language, and language learning. By triangulating existing policies, contextual and conceptual needs analyses, and existing classroom practices, the authors demonstrate a collaborative and flexible means of meeting foreign language teaching across a broad spectrum of inconsistencies. Conclusions review and discuss the importance of maintaining an open and adaptable perspective throughout foreign language curriculum design while establishing and creating a working, flexible English language curriculum.

Authentic materials and authenticity in foreign language learning

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
World Language ◽  
Text Difficulty ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
And Task

This article reviews some of the wide-ranging issues and research surrounding authentic materials and authenticity in foreign language learning. After a brief historical overview and a discussion of some of the definitional ambiguities associated with authenticity, the paper goes on to discuss four important areas of concern: i) the gap between authentic and textbook discourse; ii) the English-as-a-world-language debate; iii) authenticity and motivation; iv) text difficulty and task design and their effects on language acquisition. The article concludes by examining some of the reasons behind resistance to change in curriculum and materials design and possible future directions.

scholarly journals Incorporating Culture into Listening Comprehension Through Presentation of Movies

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Kusumarasdyati Kusumarasdyati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Instructional Aid ◽  
Target Culture

The use of movie videos as an instructional aid in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) should be encouraged due to various pedagogical benefits. This article attempts to suggest a technique of utilizing movies in English listening classes in order to improve the aural perception skills of the learners. It comprises three stages:previewing, viewing, and postviewing. In the previewing stage, learners read a bried description of the theme of the movies to activate their prior knowledge, guess the meaning of certain keywords presented in sentential contexts, or familiarize-either with or without any subtitles-and while doing so they are supposed to answer several questions in written form. Finally, the learners are enganged into a postviewing activity in the form of contrasting cultures reflected in the movies. This technique of teaching listening has proved to be effective in developing listening skills in a foreign language and sentizing them to the target culture, which is an inseparable aspect of language learning.

scholarly journals The Importance Of Listening In Foreign Language Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (09) ◽  
pp. 643-646
Author(s):  
Karimova Jamila Shariyevna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Different Types

This article is devoted to the role of listening skill and it’s different types in terms of obtaining new language. The stages which are typically used in order to do listening  are given with their instructions in the article.

scholarly journals Learners' Attitudes to Repetitious Exposure in Multimedia Listening Software

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Vehbi Turel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Real World ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Audio Video

<p>The positive effects of using different types of listening texts (i.e. audio, video) in listening enhancement as a part of foreign language learning are already well known (Turel 2004: 178-84, Tschirner 2001: 310, Ridgway 2000: 182, Borchardt 1999:10, Adair-Hauck et al. 1999: 273, 289, Peter 1994: 202, Hart 1992: 5). As multimedia enables us to combine and present different listening texts on the same digital computer platform more effectively, the same listening texts can be presented to language learners in different forms (Turel 2004: 129-38, Trinder 2002: 79, Heron et al. 2002: 37, Brett 1998: 81, Chanier 1996: 7, Ashward 1996: 80, Brett 1996: 204, Fox et al. 1992: 39, Leffa 1992: 66). In this research, the language learners were provided with listening texts in the form of audio-only and audio-visuals (i.e. audio + visuals, audio + animation, video-only, video + visuals). They were also provided with the opportunity of re-listening to the same audio-only with visuals and audio-visuals without visuals. This study investigated 45 autonomous intermediate and upper intermediate language learners' perceptions of the opportunity of re-listening to the same audio-only with visuals and audio-visuals without visuals through interactive multimedia listening software that aimed to enhance the listening skills of the participants. The results reveal that the language learners are in favour of re-listening to the same audio-only with visuals and audio-visuals without visuals. They believe that such an opportunity improves their listening skills and helps prepare them for the real world.</p>

scholarly journals Veracities of teaching listening in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Nanibabu Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Work Group ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Communication Games ◽  
Monitoring Strategies ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teaching Of Listening ◽  
Pair Work

This study explores realities, problems and their solutions of teaching listening in English in secondary level education in Nepal. As it is a narrative inquiry, I chose three English teachers and six students from three different secondary level community schools of Kamalamai Municipality of Sindhuli district, Nepal as the participants of the study using purposive sampling procedure. The findings demonstrated that the listening skill is the neglected skill in our school education. The teachers do not pay much more attention to teach this skill in our community school by thinking teaching listening is not important for examination purpose. There is scarcity of audio-visual devices, the classroom is not techno-friendly, teachers are not dedicated and trained, monitoring strategies of concerned authority is not effective for teaching listening. Recommended solutions include - the students should be proactive and the school administration has to be responsible for making availability of listening equipment and materials. Similarly, the teachers should use various interactive and cooperative activities such as role-play, pair work, group work and communication games using authentic materials such as English films, favourite songs, funny short stories, some exciting programmes on radio, TV or the internet for the effectual teaching of listening.

scholarly journals TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY: FACILITATION THROUGH INTERNALIZATION OF CONNECTED ENGLISH SPEECH FEATURES

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
I. N. Kosheleva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Phonological Features

Listening is not only one of the most important language skills, which is necessary for everyday communication, but an integral part  of foreign language learning. It is evident that the students need an  effective training in building auditory skills. However, proper  attention is seldom paid to the process of listening to the English  speech, altering phoneme recognition in the stream of speech, which  often causes difficulties in audio-comprehension. The subject  of this research is facilitation of teaching listening comprehension to  the students of non-linguistic universities. The purpose of the article is to identify the core phonological features of coherent  English speech and provide the examples of activities aimed at their  recognition. The methodological framework of the conducted  research is represented by bottom-up approach to teaching listening  and the tenet that speech perception and comprehension by ear is a  process. Therefore, the ability to correctly decode phonemes, words,  phrases and infer meaning plays an utmost role. In thiscontext the students’ wrong answers should be analyzed, it contributes to determining the point of misunderstanding. It is  shown that making students aware of phonological features  of  coherent English speech helps them to overcome difficulties in  audiotext perception and thus enhances teaching listening  comprehension. The results of the research can be of interest to  both foreign language teachers and to the researchers dealing with  English phonetics learning. Finally, the conclusions are drawn that a  successful development of listening skills requires a combination of  the bottom-up and top-down approaches. This enables teaching staff  to create favorable conditions for acquisition of one of the most challenging language skills.

scholarly journals Developing Authentic L2 Reading Materials

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seifoddin Rajabi ◽  
Majid Farahian
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Artificial Language ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
Reading Materials

Reading means different things to different people; for some it is recognizing written words, while for others, it is an opportunity to teach pronunciation and practice speaking. However, reading always has a purpose. It is something that we do everyday; it is an integral part of our daily lives, taken very much for granted and generally assumed to be something that everyone can do. The reason for reading depends very much on the purpose for reading. Among aspects which prove positive when using authentic materials is that they are highly motivating, giving a sense of achievement when understood and encourage further reading. One of the main reasons for using authentic materials in the classroom is once outside the controlled language learning environment, the learner will not encounter the artificial language of the classroom but the real world and language the way it is really used (Berardo, 2006).    Keywords: Authenticity; Foreign language (L2) learning; Reading comprehension; Reading materials                                                                                                                                                                      

scholarly journals Digital Audio-visuals Aids and Listening in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Mahamadou Sawadogo ◽  
Moses Kwadwo Kambou ◽  
Inoussa Malgoubri
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Listening And Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

Many scholars and language practitioners have stressed the importance of listening and speaking in language learning and teaching particularly in formal contexts. However, learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Burkina Faso appear to perform very poorly in those basic language skills. This experimental study investigates the potential of digital audio-visuals to improve the listening skills of EFL learners in secondary schools in Burkina Faso. Assuming that learners born around the year 2000 are digital natives, we have tried to integrate smartphone-friendly audio-visuals in their EFL classrooms in a four-week experiment involving one Experimental Group and one Control Group. The experiment aimed at gauging the effectiveness of those aids operated via students‘ smartphones in improving learners‘ listening and speaking skills. Independent T-tests were used to compare the groups and Sample Paired T-Tests to make comparisons within groups. Furthermore, Cohen‘s d, an effect size formula, was used to measure the effect size. The findings show that the listening skills of the students exposed to the digital audio-visual aids improved on average from 10.2 to 18.5. It was noticed incidentally that their speaking skills improved as well. The study suggests that, if appropriately used, smartphones are excellent devices for language teachers and learners in this digitizing world.

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