Unit 7 "Listening"

Listening is one of the four language skills, according to (Mary Spratt, 2012), “it involves responding to language rather than producing it and that Listening involves making sense of the meaningful sounds of the language.” In this unit I learned that it is a process of understanding not only what a person may say, also listening involves understanding by the facial expressions, gestures and body language. One important thing about listening is that there are several subskills that a teacher needs to follow in order teach learners in an easy way those subskills are:

-          Listening for gist / Global understanding

-          Specific information

-          Infer attitude

As in reading listening contains listening intensively and listening extensively, according to (Ros, 2011) “listen intensively involves an appreciation of how form affects meaning” however listening extensively according to (central, 2013) “is a way to improve your listening fluency.” As future teacher I believe that listening is the subskill that will take more time to teach for that reason I may include some authentic materials, minimal pairs and I will expose them to listen to some books or role plays, music, watch movies which will help students to understand better. 

REFERENCES: 

- central, e. r. (2013). extensive reading central. Obtenido de extensive reading central: http://www.er-central.com/contributors/learn-about-extensive-reading-and-listening/what-is-extensive-listening/

- Mary Spratt, A. P. (2012). The tkt course. United Kingdom: Polestar Wheatons Ltd, Exter.

- Ros, M. (2011). Lateral communciation. Obtenido de Lateral communication: http://latcomm.com/2011/12/what-is-intensive-listening/

- courses, G. E. (06 de 08 de 2009). youtube . Obtenido de youtube : https://youtu.be/91GL21bCjAE

EXTRA INFORMATION 

-David J. Mendelsohn, J. R. (1995). A Guide for the Teaching of Second Language Listening. Obtenido de A Guide for the Teaching of Second Language Listening: https://books.google.com.ec