When it talks about four skills, listening is the most difficult one for students to pick up at a short period of time. I think that learners should acquire unfamiliar vocabulary or new grammatical rules first so as to enhance listening comprehension quickly.
I think group three did a good job in that they arise our learning motivation through a movie and active interaction. But I think this movie material may be too tough to learn for secondary students. It is difficult to fill in every blank without the prior knowledge and relevant vocabulary on this film. Teachers should explain the necessary vocabulary or keywords in advance rather than elaborate these after students’ performance.
In pre-listening section, teachers can provide prior knowledge first, after that, in follow-up section, teachers can design role play or written activities to further interaction and discussion. In the last section, post-listening, teachers can elaborate the whole context in detail. However, in my opinion, the best way to learn listening skill is “swim method”.
Giving students proper guidance with basic information about the listening materials is essential. Or it’s like throwing students into the sea without telling them what to anticipate or where to go. Speaking of sea, by the way, can you elaborate on “swim method”?
Comment by Alice — May 3, 2007 @ 10:15 pm