Abstract
In the traditional ELT in China, much emphasis has been put on the students’ mastering vocabulary and grammar. Language form was regarded as the content of teaching. And listening skill has been ever neglected for a fairly long time in ELT in China. Recent years, more and more attention has been drawn to learners’ listening ability. This paper introduces teaching listening course at college level in communicative approach, which involves background knowledge introduction and into which various skills: speaking, reading and writing are integrated. It discusses the task design, strategy training, possible teaching plan, classroom arrangement; and presents an empirical study in this approach.
Highlights
In modern times, the world has shrunk and in many cases interpersonal communication is more vital than academic usage
The question is not “what is the speaker trying to tell us about events and things in the world?” but “what is the speaker trying to achieve through language?” Widdowson provides an interaction to demonstrate the points he wishes to make: A: I have two tickets to the theater tonight
Background knowledge is an important part of listening teaching. 3.3 Important Listening Strategies Training From the former chapter we have seen learning strategy training is beneficial to foreign language or second language learning
Summary
The world has shrunk and in many cases interpersonal communication is more vital than academic usage. These negotiating procedures depend crucially on the participants knowing what each utterance stands for functionally (that is as “invitation”, “polite refusal”, etc.) The implication on ELT is, the student must have enough background knowledge of the culture, knowledge which is relevant to the particular instance of the language he is concerned with, to enable him to assess why what is being said is being said. The treatment is: usually in class for control group, the last 10-15 minutes would be used to re-listen all of the content that the students had heard during that class. For experimental group this period of time was employed to carry on BST measures
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