Introduction
Listening is arguably the most difficult skill to acquire. Despite learning English for
years, many EFL learners are still struggling especially when they have to deal with authentic
listening materials. Unfortunately, listening has probably received the least attention in EFL
classrooms. Most teachers do not find this job prestigious and many students do not like the
listening sessions as well. There is only a very limited amount of research conducted to find out
why and how to overcome this problem either. For the reasons above, listening has become
“Cinderella skill” in many language teaching especially when compared to its elder sister:
speaking (Nunan, 1997).
The fact that listening process is not accessible to inspection as that of other skills also
corroborate the idea that listening cannot be "taught". Most of the time, teachers only ‘test’
listening, and not teach how to listen (Field, 2003). Learners only listen to a tape and answer
the given questions. However, there are some anecdotal evidence that indicate that some
learners indeed acquire listening skills via more interesting ways, e.g. films, songs, etc. Based
on this situation, I would share about typical listening problems and the benefits of ReadingWhile-Listening
(RWL) to help EFL learners, especially the lower level ones, to develop their
listening fluency. I would also talk about some ideas to make listening materials more
interesting.
Introduction
Listening is arguably the most difficult skill to acquire. Despite learning English for
years, many EFL learners are still struggling especially when they have to deal with authentic
listening materials. Unfortunately, listening has probably received the least attention in EFL
classrooms. Most teachers do not find this job prestigious and many students do not like the
listening sessions as well. There is only a very limited amount of research conducted to find out
why and how to overcome this problem either. For the reasons above, listening has become
“Cinderella skill” in many language teaching especially when compared to its elder sister:
speaking (Nunan, 1997).
The fact that listening process is not accessible to inspection as that of other skills also
corroborate the idea that listening cannot be "taught". Most of the time, teachers only ‘test’
listening, and not teach how to listen (Field, 2003). Learners only listen to a tape and answer
the given questions. However, there are some anecdotal evidence that indicate that some
learners indeed acquire listening skills via more interesting ways, e.g. films, songs, etc. Based
on this situation, I would share about typical listening problems and the benefits of ReadingWhile-Listening
(RWL) to help EFL learners, especially the lower level ones, to develop their
listening fluency. I would also talk about some ideas to make listening materials more
interesting.
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