Syllabus | EN 1103: Listening in English I
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Nature of listening and factors that affect listening (06 / 03 hrs)
- What is listening? Ability to identify and understand what others are saying, involves understanding a speaker’s accent/pronunciation/grammar/ vocabulary and grasping the meaning.
Factors that affect listening:
Get the students to discuss and write a list in small groups.
Whole class discussion.
Use the following factors in the discussion:
Listening passage is heard only once, content usually not well organized, cannot be
listened to at a slower speed (message on radio, on tape), difficult to recognize
individual words in the stream of speech, may contain colloquial words and
expression and redundant utterances: repetitions, false starts, rephrasing, self-
corrections, elaborations, meaningless utterances (e.g. I mean. you know...), no body
language and facial expressions, etc
Extract specific information –selective listening (06 / 03 hrs)
- Purpose: not to look for global/general meaning, but to be able to find information. Students listen for names/dates/certain facts and events/location/situation/context etc.
Types of tasks:
Listen to news. In the work sheet tick the category to which the news items you hear
fall into.
Listen to announcements e.g. Airline arrivals and departures. Fill in the flight
numbers, destinations, gate numbers, departure times etc.
Listening for the main idea and specific details (06 / 03 hrs)
- Types of activities
Listen and take notes under given headings
Listen and answer comprehension check questions
- Text types: Interviews, speeches
Understanding planned monologues (06 / 03 hrs)
- In planned monologues the language is carefully structured. Provide the students with a task sheet to be completed while listening.
- Types of activities: weather reports, news readings
Understanding unplanned monologues (06 / 03 hrs)
- In unplanned monologues which are usually crated on the spot in response to an initial question there is a lot of pauses, redundancy and fragmentary utterances.
Types of tasks:
-.identify the meaningless speech, list them, and compare with others
Comprehension questions
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