English Listening Teaching
Underwood (1989 : 180) addressed that to teach means to facilitate learning,
and the role of the teacher is to support and guide learners their.
According to Euck (2001 : 159) good listeners need different sub- skills
according to different kinds of texts they are listening to and the reasons for listening
to their.
Moreover, the teacher can help students become effective listeners by
making them aware of the different kinds of listening, the different purposes of
listening, and the qualities of good listeners. Wolvin and Coakley (1992 : 7) identify
four different kinds of listening as follows :
1. Comprehensive (Informational) Listening: Students listen for the
content of the message.
2. Critical (Evaluative) Listening: Students judge the message
3. Appreciative (Aesthetic) Listening: Students listen for enjoyment
4. Therapeutic (Empathetic) Listening: Students listen to support others
but not to judge them.
In the classroom, when designing listening lessons, methods or techniques
should be applied to make the lessons challenging, effective, and interesting to the
students. To do this use a variety of activities should be used. If a teacher always used
the same activities, students would become bored. It is important to vary activities to
stimulate the students’ interest and challenge them with something new. Since the
learners have more chances to listen to many situations, they also can predict what
speakers are going to say. Mendelsohn (1995 : 253) says that the reason why listening
skills are not widespread in terms of teaching is that, the English aural materials as a
foreign language are not appropriate for the learners. They do not develop the
learners’ listening skills in real world.
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Ur.P (1984 : 47-166) suggests organizing the listening lessons as follows :
1. Listening and making no response
1.1 Following a written text
1.2 Listen to a familiar text
1.3 Listen aided by visuals
1.4 Informal teacher talk
1.5 Entertainment
2. Listening and making short responses
2.1 Obeying instructions
2.2 Ticking off items
2.3 True or False
2.4 Detecting mistakes
2.5 Aral cloze
2.6 Guessing definitions
2.7 Noting specific Information
2.8 Family tree
2.9 Graphs
3. Listening and making longer responses
3.1 Repatriation and dictation
3.2 Paraphrase
3.3 Translation
3.4 Answering question
3.5 Multiple choices
3.6 Prediction
3.7 Filling in the gaps
3.8 Summarizing
4. Listening as a basic for study discussion
4.1 Problem- solving
4.2 Jigsaw listening
4.3 Interpretative listening
4.4 Evaluative and stylistic analysis
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Thus, tales are an appropriate method to teach listening skills. The learners
are interested in tales because tales are stories about human’ ways of life and sources
of entertainment for the children. The learners are able to learn vocabulary,
pronunciation and grammar though the tales. The listening activities are the part of
daily life .They can best be developed with tales.