Teaching Listening and Speaking




Hello guys, welcome back!!!
Todays topic is about "Teaching Listening and Speaking".
This is the other two English skills that I haven't discuss in the last post. 

Let's get started!

Listening is a basic step so we are able to speak. It's because listening is a process of acquisition in order to produce or speak. So  before teaching students to speak, firstly, teacher will be better to teach them to listen.

In teaching listening for old learners and young learners is quite different. We have to be able to prepare and present a fun and enjoyable material in order to motivate the young learners. In common, teaching students with movement is the best method of teaching, it will build up student's spirit and motivation to learn. 

Here are some listening activities that can help teacher to teach young learners: 

  • Listen and do, listen and show, listen and point, listen and make,
  • Using flashcards for pre-teaching new vocabulary,
  • Performing silent dramatization during the listening activities.

So that's all about listening, now we move to speaking.
After having much insight that is developed through listening, then students will be able to move to the next step, namely, speaking.
Knowing that movement is one of the important thing needed to motivate young learners, so in teaching speaking, TPR (Total Physical Response) seems to be the most suit one, because it's about learning by doing. In using the TPR method we also can replace the instruction by giving the students song, so it'll be more enjoyable for the students.

There are several steps for teaching songs, according to Shin and Crandall (2014). These steps include:

  • Introducing the topic of the song,
  • Reviewing the vocabulary students already know,
  • Pre-teaching the new vocabulary, listening to the song with added TPR activities,
  • Teaching the verses one by one.



Resource:

https://aliceinmethodologyland.com/2019/10/14/teyl-teaching-listening-and-speaking-to-young-learners/

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