UNIT 7 LISTENING

In English language, the listening skill means to listen to. In other words, this is a receptive skill, just like Reading, therefore learners have to respond to the language instead of producing it. The author Michael Purdy suggests in his book Listening in every day life: a personal and professional approach (1997), to do that, learners should make use of the context in which they are involved, the language and their environmental knowledge, and as consequence the sounds that they listen to, will make sense and will be meaningful to them. Accordingg to Barthes, Roland (1985), those sounds are processed into words and sentences, and with Listening help we can identify those sounds. By reading this unit, 

I learnt that we need to develop our listening skill in a strong way in order to become a fluent person at the moment to speak, which also means that Listening and Speaking work together since Listening helps to me to understand what I listen to, speak clearly, to use the correct structure at the moment to speak, to pronounce properly, to use the correct intonation, and to know when to stress a word in a sentence. For example I might include the following activity: to make my students to listen to a song in English by providing them some worksheets where they will have to fill with the words they listen to, and in that way I am working out their listening skills. Or I might use the same song by providing them its lyrics and underlining the most difficult words to pronounce, warming them to pay attention to those words for they to realize how its pronunciation is.

References: 

Purdy, Michael. (1997) Listening in Everyday Life.

Barthes, Roland. (1985) The responsability of forms

Flowered, John. (200%) Second Language Listening.

http://www.academia.edu/603612/What_is_listening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listening