ELT

Name: Kunvarani Nidhi K

Paper: English Language  teaching’

Unit: Teaching of Language skill

Topic: Importance of listening 

           skill in Learning Language.

S. t. d: M.A-(sem-3)

Year: October-2013

Date: 25/10/2013

Submitted to: 

       The Department of English

       M. K. B.U.

      Bhavnagar.

§  Importance of listening skill in learning language.

To know the  importance of listening

 Skill before it’s very much important for the reader’s that ‘What is Listening?’

v What is listening?

Listening is one of the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Like reading listening a receptive skill, as it involves responding to language rather than producing it.Listening involves making sense of the meaningful sounds of language.And, listening  skill related with the spoken language,which is quite different from written language.so,Let see difference between written language and spoken language in English.

v Written language in English:

Ø Written language don’t producing sound.

Ø Written language skill is visible skill.

Ø Stays on the page and doesn’t disappear.

Ø This skill is remaining as documentary.

Ø This skill need punctuation and capital

letters to show sentences

Ø Has no visual support-except photos

or pictures sometimes.

Ø This skill is usually quite well organized  sentences follow one another in logical sequences and are joined to previous or following sentences.

Ø This skill most probably uses highly and exact vocabulary and grammar

v Spoken language in English:

Ø Spoken language is sound producing skill.

Ø Spoken language skill is invisible skill.

Ø Disappears as soon as it is spoken.

Ø This skill doesn’t remaining as documentary.

Ø This skill shows sentences and meaningful groups of words through stress and intonation.

Ø In this skill speaker uses their body language to support  their communication. e. g gesture, posture.

Ø Is not so well  organized. e. g hesitations, interruptions etc. In this skill possibilities of errors in the sentence.

Ø This skill most probably speaker uses  simple  vocabulary and simple grammar.

Above given difference of written language and spoken language  in English become aware to us that, how, why and which written and spoken language either far or near to the listening skill.

v Features of listening skill:

1).Listening or Hearing:

Listening and Hearing both of different than each other. Listening man to carefully pay attention on anything or on the talk. While, Hearing is inborn capacity. And, It’s unintentional listening.

2).Interpretation:

Interpretation based on knowledge or language power punctuality in grammarperfectness in sentences.That’s all thing very nmuch important in interpretation.

3)Evaluation:

Evaluation means to judge or assessment of the anything.

In listening skill evaluation based on the listeners ability to understand

 The language, attention etc. thing, it’s much important evaluation.

4).Response/feedback:

Response or feedback is just like evaluation. In the process of ‘Response’ for the listener it’s much important language power, concentration power subject knowledge much important in to listening skill.

There are some main features of ‘listening skill’. David Nunan commented that  listening skill is the “cindrella skil” .which is overlooked by it’s elder sister “speaking”. Because, ’Listening’ and ‘speaking’ both of depends on each other. But, listening skill is passive, while speaking skill is very much active and live.

v What is the need of listening?

‘Purpose’ or ‘intense’ is necessary for listening. Because without cause we can hearing something but not listening. At least ,one ‘purpose’ of the listener is necessary to listen something. Because hearing is inborn while listening is not.

And, for the listener it’s also necessary to grasp the various kinds of listening. Because sometimes some speaker spokes very fastly and some speaker speaks very slow. so, it’s listener’s responsibility to careful about some all those things.

Ina way ,we can say that all listening are not the same. But, depends on the reason for the listening. sometimes we listen for the sake of gist, specific information, for the entertainment , detail, attitude, intention etc. above given all of some needs, and purposes of listening.

e. g  Today,in the class-room teachers also present come udio/video to convey something easily .songs of movie,child listen story for their knowledge and entertainment.There are some example of the need baesd listening.Listening skill is extra concentrative skill than speaking.Because,listening skill don’t produce sound but just only concentrate or grasping on the speaker,

v What doe teaching listening involves?

1).Hearing  is the difference between common sound.

2).Identifying important words in what someone has just say, or mentally not taking.

In this thing for the speaker it’ very much important to take care of the mind, position, nature of the listener that what should like to listen or avoid.

3).Understanding and responsible to simple instructions and commands.

4).Recognizing basic differences in information.

5).Audio/video or pictures became helpful to convey the perfect and easily what the core  idea behind the thing.

6)Understanding different spoken texts types. Identifying main ideas.

7).Understanding to naturally occurring speeches, which is not well-panned.

8).Understanding and responding to requests and to simple requests and classroom instructions.

v The language teaching in the classroom and listening skill.

In the  field of teaching 4 skills became so much important. In the class-room many things to take-care teachers and learners both.

1).silence is so much important in the listening process.

2)It’s also much important  is the ‘voice’ of teachers. Teachers voice should be Audible and with the clear speech.

3).Live teaching is more influential and beneficial than the other way. Because through live interaction learner can share some difficulties with the teachers while in another system it’s not possible.

4).some listening texts in course books are authentic.

5).story or mythical technique also helpful to easily got the idea about  the speakers view.

6).Role-play or task based activities are so much helpful for the learners to increase their confidence.

7).teacher has to  be careful  about the level of learners.

v Conclusion:

There is no  specific definition for  the any skill or skill  can never be defined just introduce. so, Here I’m trying to introduce listening skill through above all some points.And, with this I conclude my point ‘Listening skill’ how helpfully in to learning language.