Listening / Goodith White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Goodith

Series:

Resource books for teachers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Listening--Study and teaching.

Listening.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

143 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Listening looks at what makes a good listener and how teachers can motivate learners to develop confidence and independence in listening. There are over 70 classroom activities, including raising learners' awareness of individual sounds and intonation patterns, exploiting published materials, radio, and television, 'listening in real life', and listening projects. An Appendix provides advice on making your own listening materials.

Contents:

1 Becoming a good listener 13

1.1 What's in a word? discussing listening processes, 10 13

1.2 Tapefriends connecting speaking and listening, 30 15

1.3 Sounds of silence improving concentration, 5-10 16

1.4 Getting the frame activating previous knowledge, 10 17

1.5 Up the garden path predicting, 10 18

1.6 Interrupting encouraging student participation, 5-10 19

1.7 Over to you encouraging student participation, 20 21

1.8 What went wrong? analysing problems, 15-20 22

1.9 Sight and sound 1 the role of vision, 40-50 24

1.10 Sight and sound 2 the role of vision, 30 25

1.11 Tapes for the blind following oral instructions, 40 26

1.12 The good listener qualities of a good listener, 30 28

1.13 Learning through listening language learning through listening, 20 + 20 30

1.14 Design your own listening course keeping a 'listening diary', 5-10 + 10 + 10-15 32

1.15 Taped feedback listening to improve speaking, 30 + 10 + 15 34

1.16 Listening outside class encouraging independent learning, 5-10 35

2 Helping students to create their own listening texts and tasks 38

Students making their own recordings 39

2.1 Soundtracks students creating texts and tasks, 50 39

2.2 My home listening for detail, 10-20 + 15 41

2.3 Sounds of my day listening for detail, 15 + 60 + 20 41

2.4 Fun with sound effects making listening fun, 20 + 20 + 20 42

2.5 Designing a 'self help' tape students making their own tape, 20-30 43

2.6 Serial story awareness of pronunciation problems, 10-15 44

Using teachers' voices 47

2.7 Gossips listening for detail, 5-10 47

2.8 Describe and draw rooms from stories listening for detail, 20 48

2.9 Imagining listening for detail, 5-10 49

Students designing their own tasks 50

2.10 Listening in role showing that people listen differently, 30 50

2.11 Guest speaker listening for gist and detail, 5 + 20 + 50 52

2.12 Tape library designing a tape library, 30-60 53

3 Micro skills 55

Individual sounds 56

3.1 Wall dictation distinguishing individual sounds, 15-20 56

3.2 People's sounds distinguishing individual sounds, 15 57

3.3 Weird words relating sounds to written forms, 10 58

3.4 Discrimination quiz identifying stressed syllables, 5-10 59

Word stress 60

3.5 Holiday stress identifying words, 15 60

Identifying words in a stream of speech 61

3.6 Haunted in room 325 identifying words, 40 61

3.7 Shouting match identifying words, 10-15 63

3.8 Predictaword identifying words, 10-15 65

3.9 Snakes and stars identifying words, 5-10 65

3.10 Wrong word quiz identifying words, 10-15 66

Sentence stress 67

3.11 Audio books 1 identifying sentences stress, 10-15 67

3.12 Stresses and pauses identifying sentences stress, 20 68

Longer stretches of speech 69

3.13 What's next? predicting, 5 69

Intonation 69

3.14 Kind or cruel? identifying intonation, 10-15 69

3.15 Is this person about to stop speaking? recognizing turn-taking signals, 5-10 70

3.16 Attitudes identifying intonation, 10 71

4 Adapting published materials 73

Overcoming the 'overhearer' effect 74

4.1 Overhearers participating in listening text, 40 74

4.2 Participants participating in listening texts, 10 75

Personalizing the listening material 76

4.3 How do these pictures fit in? personalizing listening, 10-15 76

4.4 Character and voice focusing on voice quality/speed, 15-20 77

4.5 Word bingo identifying words, 10 78

4.6 Our questions and answers listening for detail, 20-30 78

4.7 From answer to question 1 listening tests, 10-15 79

4.8 From answer to question 2 listening tests, 20 80

4.9 Filtered listening coping with background noise, 10 81

4.10 Changing the listening passage diagnosing listening problems, 30 82

Listening to dialogues 83

4.11 Predict a dialogue listening to conversations, 15-20 83

4.12 How authentic? recognizing turn-taking signals, 30 84

4.13 Monologue to dialogue recognizing turn-taking signals, 20-25 86

5 Using authentic listening material 88

Listening to the news 88

5.1 News for all understanding news broadcasts, 10-20 88

Audiences for the news 90

5.2 News values understanding news broadcasts, 40-50 90

5.3 Comparing the news understanding news broadcasts, 15-20 92

Adapting the news 93

5.4 Shortening the news understanding news broadcasts, 20-30 93

5.5 The World Service understanding news broadcasts, 40-50 94

5.6 The news expanded understanding news broadcasts, 50 95

Other radio/television programmes 96

5.7 Station surfing recognizing different types of text, 5-10 96

5.8 Weather diary listening for information, 30 + 5-10 97

5.9 Sports temperatures listening for gist, 30-40 98

5.10 Listening to politicians listening evaluatively, 30 101

5.11 Radio advertisements listening for information, 30 102

5.12 Opinion programmes listening for opinions, 10-15 103

Other kinds of authentic material 104

5.13 Lectures listening to lectures, note-taking, 30 104

5.14 Audio books 2 listening carefully, 20 105

6 Telephoning 107

6.1 Your telephone personality telephone listening, 20 108

6.2 Mobile telephone telephone listening, 10 111

6.3 Telephone the class making telephone calls, 10 + 10 + 10 112

6.4 Telephone voting making telephone calls, 10 + 5 + 5 113

6.5 Answering machines understanding answering machines, 30 115

6.6 Real-life telephoning making telephone calls, 15 + 10-15 + 15 116

7 Listening projects 119

7.1 Interview for a magazine integrating listening with other skills, 50 + 50 119

7.2 Voice of the people interviewing, 10-15 + 60 + 20 122

7.3 Desert island discs backwards integrating listening with other skills, 30 + 30 124

7.4 Making a news broadcast integrating listening with other skills, 50 125

7.5 A radio play integrating listening with other skills, 50-90 + 30-45 127

7.6 Local radio integrating listening with other skills, 20 + 30-40 + 30 130

7.7 Oral history listening to compare information, 30 + 30 + 30 131

Appendix 1 How to make good quality recordings 133

Appendix 2 Useful sources of listening materials 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0194372162

OCLC:

39530370