Syllabus | EN 1103: Listening in English I

Nature of listening and factors that affect listening (06 / 03 hrs)

What is listening? Ability to identify and understand what others are saying, involves understanding a speaker’s accent/pronunciation/grammar/ vocabulary and grasping the meaning.

- Get the students to discuss and write a list in small groups.

- Whole class discussion.

Use the following factors in the discussion:

Listening passage is heard only once, content usually not well organized, cannot be

listened to at a slower speed (message on radio, on tape), difficult to recognize

individual words in the stream of speech, may contain colloquial words and

expression and redundant utterances: repetitions, false starts, rephrasing, self-

corrections, elaborations, meaningless utterances (e.g. I mean. you know...), no body

language and facial expressions, etc

Purpose: not to look for global/general meaning, but to be able to find information. Students listen for names/dates/certain facts and events/location/situation/context etc.

- Listen to news. In the work sheet tick the category to which the news items you hear

fall into.

- Listen to announcements e.g. Airline arrivals and departures. Fill in the flight

numbers, destinations, gate numbers, departure times etc.

Listening for the main idea and specific details (06 / 03 hrs)

- Listen and take notes under given headings

- Listen and answer comprehension check questions

In planned monologues the language is carefully structured. Provide the students with a task sheet to be completed while listening.
Types of activities: weather reports, news readings

In unplanned monologues which are usually crated on the spot in response to an initial question there is a lot of pauses, redundancy and fragmentary utterances.

-.identify the meaningless speech, list them, and compare with others

- Comprehension questions

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