省级精品课程-英语教学法.ppt

Unit 9 Teaching Listening Aims of the unit 1. Why is listening so difficult for students? 2. What do we listen to in everyday life? 3. What are the characteristics of the listening process? 4. What are the principles of teaching listening? 5. What are the common activities in teaching listening? I The importance of teaching listening 1. Listening is one of the four basic skills of a language. I The importance of teaching listening I The importance of teaching listening 3. Why does listening seem so difficult for Chinese students? Different speakers produce the same sounds in different ways. ( dialects and accents, stresses, rhythms, intonations, mispronunciations) The speed of the input of spoken material can not be controlled; Spoken material is often heard only once. And the listener cannot pause the speaker to work out the meaning. Background noise Memory and recurrence II. The problems in listening of the Chinese students 1. Listening is often neglected in language teaching. II. The problems in listening of the Chinese students II. The problems in listening of the Chinese students Ⅲ. Characteristics of the listening process 1. What do we listen to in everyday life? Ⅲ. Characteristics of the listening process 1. What do we listen to in everyday life? Ⅲ. Characteristics of the listening process The criteria of listening situations ? Formal or informal? ? Rehearsed or non-rehearsed? ? Can the listener interact with the speaker or not? Ⅳ. Principles for teaching listening 1. Two major purposes in listening: for social reasons to exchange information 2. Principles for teaching listening: 1) Focus on process 2) Combine listening with other skills 3) Focus on comprehending meaning 4) Grade difficult level appropriately Ⅳ. Principles for teaching listening Task 5: For low intermediate class, what texts would you choose? In what order? A videotape of a talk by a native speaker about the school life of middle school students in the United St