Teaching Listening: Making use of Podcasting

Teaching Listening Comprehension. 

In teaching listening comprehension the focus of the teachers is to help students with techniques on

how to listen. So tips on how to listen is very crucial to teach on the students.

Below is a link that will take us to a website that gives us practical tips on how to teach listening skills:

HOW TO TEACH LISTENING SKILLS

 If we focus on the product of listening only then the tendency is that we do not teach listening

rather we test listening. Then what are the strategies? 

The following articles discuss theories about the development of listening skills,

tips on how to deliver a listening activities and some practical tips on listening activities

that can be performed by teachers and

students while learning a language.

1. Listening for young learners
   
   
2. Teaching listening to college students
   
   

The links  below inspire us with activities/Lesson plan that can be adapted to teach listening

1. Listening Skills Lesson Plan 
   
   
2. Games to improve listening for Elementary Students
   
   
3. Teaching listening with songs 
   
   

In addition to those theories and activities for teaching listening, what should also be taken into

account is the materials to be used. Listening is really not only a classroom activity for language

learners but should also be a recreational activity outside the classroom.

Listening will be much more meaningful if what to listen is really of Students’ interest and students

have the option to do that, such as what, when and wherever they want to listen.

Podcasts are one technology that may enable that. It will give teachers easy access to authentic

listening materials wherever and whenever they want as long as there is internet connection.

Students can also do the same. Moreover, with podcasts both students and teachers can build their

own library of their interest.

HEREBY MY EXAMPLE OF WORK DONE :

https://soundcloud.com/astondy-lahamazta/podcast-culture-shock