Unit 8 Teaching Listening
63. Reasons for poor listening:
1) Lack of teaching materials (audio and video tapes);
查理和巧克力工厂读后感
2) Lack of equipment (tape players, VCRs, VCDs, computers);
3) Lack of training in how to u the equipment;
轻视的反义词 4) Listening is not included on many important tests;
5) Lack of real-life situations where language learners need to understand spoken English;
6) Lessons tend to test rather than to train students' listening skills.
64. Why listening can be more difficult than reading:
1) Different speakers produce the same sounds in different ways,
2) The listener has little or no control over the speed of the input of spoken material;
3) Spoken material is often heard only once. In most cas, we cannot go back and listen again
4) The listener cannot pau to work out the meaning
5) Speech is more likely to be distorted by background noi or the media that transmit sounds.
6) The listener sometimes has to deal simultaneously with another task while listening, such as formal note-taking, writing down directions or messages from telephone calls, or operating equipment while listening to instructions.
65. One reason for students' unsatisfactory listening abilities:
There is not enough variety in the materials that they listen to in class. In most cas, the listening materials are daily conversations or stories. But in reality we listen to far more things, regardless of which language is ud.
67. The following are situations where Chine people need to listen to English. Choo eight situations that you think are the most frequent:
[] telephone conversations about business *[] radio news in English
*[] lessons or lectures given in English *[] conversations with foreigners
*[] instructions in English *[] watching television in English
*[] watching movies in English [] shop assistants who ll goods to foreigners
[] deal with tourists [] international trade fairs
[] interviews with foreign-enterpris 企业 [] negotiations with foreign business
*[] socialize with foreigners *[] hotel and restaurant rvices
*[] listening to English songs
68. If you look back at the list of listening situations, you may judge the situations according to the following criteria:
1). Formal or informal?
2). Reheard（背诵/睡前咳嗽排练/练习）or non-reheard?
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3). Can the listener interact with the speaker or not?
69. The characteristics of listening in real life (adapted from Ur, 1996:106-7):
1) Spontaneity
细胞衰老的特征
2) Context
3) Visual clues
4) Listener’s respon
江南诗词5) Speaker’s adjustment调节
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