Transcript Teaching Listening and Speaking (KSU January 2013)

Teaching Listening and Speaking
Joe McVeigh
King Saud University PYP
21 January 2013
A joke
A joke
A: “It’s windy.”
B: “No, it isn’t. It’s Thursday.
C: “So am I. Let’s get off and have a
cup of tea.”
Frustrations and
challenges in
teaching listening
A three-ring circus
• One minute to gather short responses.
(Facilitator microphones off)
• Chime to stop talking.
• One minute to report back (twenty
seconds for each group, turn on mics as
needed.)
Frustrations and
challenges in
teaching listening
Shhhh.
Time to stop.
Report back
Listening basics
How is spoken language
different from written
language?
Shhhh.
Time to stop.
Report back
• Real time/speed control
• Reductions, blends, false starts
• Loose organization of speech:
– short, vague language
– non-fluent
– little subordination
– use of gestures and body language
How do we decode language ?
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An unbroken stream of sound
Is broken up into groups of sounds
Which are recognized as words
Whose meaning is accessed
And the relationship of the words to each
other is established
What do we do when things are
ambiguous or unclear?
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We use real-world knowledge
We use the immediate context
We use word-order strategies
We use pauses, stress, intonation
Beginning students and poor
listeners in general often lack
bottom-up skills.
• They can’t segment speech
• They don’t recognize words
• They use the words they do know, even if
implausible
• They may get some specific information,
but have a hard time with main ideas.
Too much going
on
How do listeners need to break up
the speech stream?
• Work with thought groups
• Recognize
– assimilation
– deletion
– insertion
– strong (tell) and weak (open) forms
Distinguishing sounds:
minimal pairs
1 bin
3 Ben
2 pin
4 pen
Q: Skills for Success Listening & Speaking 1
Q: Skills for Success Listening & Speaking 1
Writing things down
dictation
Ways to use transcripts
• Ss mark stressed words.
• Instead of audio, teach can read and hyper-stress for beginners.
• Intermediate/advanced students: Predict stress, then check
• A crosses out words in the script and hands the script to B, who
listens and restores text as (1) A reads OR (2) both listen again.
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• Ss try to match the speed and intonation of the script.
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• For grammatical focus, highlight the forms in the script, or raise
hands when they hear that form.
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Frustrations and
challenges in
teaching speaking
Shhhh.
Time to stop.
Report back
Working with
speaking
Power Tools
Using language to get
more language
Controlled to less controlled activities
Repetition and drills
Variety
Dialogs
Using dialogues
• Read and look up
• Partners make mistakes on purpose
• Strip stories – reconstruct the dialogue
after hearing it
• Personalize the dialogue
• Voice variations
• Physical variations: standing, moving in
line, back to back, etc.
Q: Skills for
Success
Reading &
Writing Intro
Shhhh.
Time to stop.
Report back
Information gap activities
Q: Skills for Success Listening & Speaking 1
Free
conversation
Structure –
direction and
narrowing the
topic
Q: Skills for Success Listening & Speaking 1
Word Stress
pencil
today
yesterday
tomorrow
in ter es ting
In tres ting
Sentence stress
and reduced
forms
Djeet yet?
No, joo?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I would ever come back.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I would ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
From The Poetry of Robert Frost, New York: Holt. 1969.
Basic intonation patterns
Cultural differences
Cultural
differences
Nonverbal
communication
Directness and indirectness
Q: Skills for Success Listening & Speaking 1
Who is doing most of the talking?
Photo Credits
All photos from flickr used under a Creative Commons license
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Saw blade
Listening ears
Twin sheep
Small and large buildings
Blurred baby on swing
Roller coaster
Paul Hart
Ky Olsen
Donald MacLeod
Ibrahim Iugaz
Bart Everson
Justin Holzworth
Photo Credits
All photos from flickr used under a Creative Commons license
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Mother with baby
Peaceful Chinese water village
Control key
Red dimpled pattern
Dialog
Ice crevasse
Women in conversation
Baby birds
Question mark
Colored thank you
Hamed Saber
Luo Shaoyang
Faramarz Hashemi
“fdecomite”
Indi Samarajiva
McKay Savage
Procsilas Moscas
Robert S Donovan
Ethan Lofton
“vistamommy”
Thanks to the many photographers on Flickr
who provided their photos under a Creative
Commons license
Processor
Principles
Pink flowers
Woman w magnifying glass
Written list
Keyhole
Jumbled Type
Highlighted book
Handwritten script
Interactive
Divers
Karl Ludwig Poggemann
“sarahg”
Eduardo Deboni
Mike Kline
sunshinecity
Sean McGrath
Pink Sherbet Photography/D
Sharon Pruitt
“rocknroll guitar”
“pareeeica”
Cameron Russell
Robert S. Digby
Want to help ?
Download the PowerPoint Slides at
www.joemcveigh.org
Special thanks to Steve Brown on
whose presentation some of the
contents of the listening section
were based. Check out his book
Listening Myths from the University
of Michigan Press.
What do you
need to know to
help them?
Questions
Questions
Download the PowerPoint Slides at
www.joemcveigh.org