4.1. Pre-listening activities
In this stage, the teacher ensures that students are ready for the listening activity to be carried out. According to
Davenellos (1999), the aim of this stage is to prepare students to a topic grammatically, educationally and
psychologically. Before playing a song to students, it is necessary to introduce the topic, the keywords and the
grammatical structure. In this stage, in order to activate students’ background information, it may be suitable to
ask the students to guess the theme of a song, to brainstorm about it, to present or to discuss the cultural
information that the song includes or to state the keywords and the ideas in the song.
Pre-listening activities enable students to be aware of the purpose of listening to the song and to focus on the
meaning of the song while listening. Besides, it is also possible to use songs by deliberately removing a part of
their lyrics and to conduct activities in which students predict or derive the meaning of a word out of the context
(Vandergrift, 1999).
As pre-listening activities, Sarıçoban (2000) recommends discussing the theme, the title or the story of the song
if there is one, informing students about the lingual points to be studied and using a picture to introduce the
theme of the song.
Moreover, many activities such as predicting the theme of a song out of its title, putting the lyrics of a song in
syntactical order, involving posters about the song and the singer and with the aim of raising awareness, asking
4.1. Pre-listening activitiesIn this stage, the teacher ensures that students are ready for the listening activity to be carried out. According toDavenellos (1999), the aim of this stage is to prepare students to a topic grammatically, educationally andpsychologically. Before playing a song to students, it is necessary to introduce the topic, the keywords and thegrammatical structure. In this stage, in order to activate students’ background information, it may be suitable toask the students to guess the theme of a song, to brainstorm about it, to present or to discuss the culturalinformation that the song includes or to state the keywords and the ideas in the song.Pre-listening activities enable students to be aware of the purpose of listening to the song and to focus on themeaning of the song while listening. Besides, it is also possible to use songs by deliberately removing a part oftheir lyrics and to conduct activities in which students predict or derive the meaning of a word out of the context(Vandergrift, 1999).As pre-listening activities, Sarıçoban (2000) recommends discussing the theme, the title or the story of the songif there is one, informing students about the lingual points to be studied and using a picture to introduce thetheme of the song.Moreover, many activities such as predicting the theme of a song out of its title, putting the lyrics of a song insyntactical order, involving posters about the song and the singer and with the aim of raising awareness, asking
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