Unit 7

Listening

Listening is good for our students’ pronunciation, too, that the more they hear and understand English being spoken, the more they absorb appropriate pitch and intonation, stress and sounds of both individual words and those which blend together in connected speech. In this unit I reviewed listening is one of the four language skills. Listening is a receptive skill as it involves responding to language rather than producing it. Other ways of listening are listening intensively and extensively.  Extensive listening is encourage them to go to English language films with subtitles. On the other hand, intensive listening from extensive listening in that students listen specially in order to work on listening skills, and in order to study the way in which English is spoken but the conversation contains example of incomplete sentences, utterances.  Some listening texts in coursebooks are authentic material. Authentic speech is speech not spoken just for language learners in other words, it is language spoken for native or competent speakers of English, with no concessions made for the learner. For example; recorded speech on the radio or on the Internet. I would like to apply all of those aspects mentioned but I will use Monologues genres can be used for different listening tasks. For example, I can ask students to listen to lectures and take notes. In additionally, I would like to use music and sound effects although most audio tracks consist of speech. Songs are very useful because, if we choose them well, or verse, or listen to songs and say what mood or message they convey. As a conclusion, students need to hear people speaking in different genres, and that while we want them all to hear authentic English.

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D.umn.edu,. (2015). Listening Skills . Retrieved 27 April 2015, from http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/s

YouTube,. (2015). 5 Secrets to Improve Your English Listening Skills. Retrieved 27 April 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtKX_H5wr5o