【英语教学法课件】Unit 9 Teaching listening.ppt

Unit 9 Unit 9 Teaching Teaching Listening Listening Warming up questions Warming up questions ? What are our problems in listening in English ? ? Do you think listening is very difficult for English learners in China ?? How do most teachers teach listening? What do you think of this kind of eaching? The focus for today The focus for today ? What makes listening so difficult? ? What do we listen to in our everyday life? ? What are the characteristics of the listening process? ? How do people process information in prehension? ? What are the principles for teaching listening? ? How can we teach listening effectively? ? Textbook PP 136-137 I. I. What makes listening so What makes listening so difficult? difficult? interviews instructions radio news loudspeaker announcements theatre shows telephone chats committee meetings shopping lessons lectures conversations gossips watching television story-telling (Ur, 1996:105) II. What do we listen to in our everyday life? III. Characteristics of the III. Characteristics of the listening process listening process ? Informal & spontaneous discourse ? Listener expectation and purpose ? Looking as well as listening ? Ongoing, purposeful listener response ? Speaker attention (Textbook P139) IV. IV. How do people process information How do people process information in prehension in prehension ? Bottom-up processing ? Top-down processing PP143-144 Bottom-up processing proceeds from sounds to words to grammatical relationships to lexical meanings, etc. to a final ‘ message ’. The process prehension begins with the message received, which is analyzed at essive levels of sounds, words, clauses, and sentences, until the intended meaning is arrived at. Comprehension is thus viewed as a process of decoding. Examples: ? Scanning the input to identify familiar lexical items ? Segmenting the stream of speech into constituents – e.