THE TEACHER'S ROLE

 

The teacher's objektives should include:

 

a)exposing students to a range of listening experiences

This can be done by using a lot diffirent listening texts (stories,conversations,

descriptive talks,etc) which incorporate a variety of language (formal or informal,

spoken by native speakers or foreign speakers,delivered slowly or quickly).

 

b)making listening purposeful for the students

This can best be achieved by providing tasks which are as realistic as possible,

so that the students can relate what they are doing in the lesson to things that

happen in real life,outside the classroom.

 

c)helping students understand what listening entails and how they might approach it

Often this means the changing the attitudes of the students,particularly if in the past

their attempts to learn to listen have been unsucessful.It is worth spending a little time

explaining the process of listening to your students (in their own language if necessary)

and talking to them about how they listen in their native language.

 

d)building up students' confidence in their own listening ability

Succes breeds success,and students who feel they are succeeding will be encouraged

to go on trying.THe teacher's role in this to prpvide experiences and activities in which

students can be successful.It is important to remove the idea of 'testing' from listening

activities and to take advantage of the almost universal interest in problem solving as

a basis for most of your listening work.

 

Before the lesson

 

There are number of steps to take when planning the listening work for yoyur class:

 

·                    Choose the listening text,

·                    Check that the activities are suitable,

·                    Adjust the level of difficulty of the activities if you need to,

·                    Consider whether the listening work you are planning will fill the time available,

·                    Think about visual aids,

·                    Decide whether any special equipment will be need,

·                    Make up your mind what procedure you will adopt for the listening session,

·                    If you are planning to present the listening text 'live' practice reading it aloud.

 

During the lesson

 

You can create and maintain an encouraging class atmosphere by:

 

·                    Being available to give help whenever it is needed, but not inflicting help

on those who do not need. This may be at any stage during the lesson.

·                    Encouraging the students to help each other, so that the emphasis is on the

successful completion of the task(s) rather then on those who got it ' right' or ' wrong '.

·                    Not retighten activities as tests to be marked end scored.

·                    Encouraging the students to alter their answers if they wish to, perhaps after

listening for a second time.

·                    Encouraging students to jot down odd words, ideas and thoughts as they are

doing listening work.

·                    Suggesting that the students use dictionaries when it would prove helpful.

·                    Including lots of pair- and group work.

·                    Making listening work enjoyable.

·                    Leaving out part of the work rather than rushing.

·                    Giving immediate feedback.