Teaching Listening to Young Learners through Songs
Presented by:1. Sari Afriza2. Pratiwi Pangestu Harso3. Rachmat Wahidi4. Riski Ananda
Scope of discussion
Introduction: Introducing teaching listening Teaching listening and Young Learners
Main stages: Developing skill of listening (bottom-up and top-down processing)
Listening activities and strategies Principles of teaching listening The song’s role in teaching listening to young learners
Introduction
Introducing teaching listeningTeaching listening to Young Learners
Young learner: a child who is in their first six years of formal education, from the age of 6—12.
Teacher should requires some strategies in order to make students comfortable in the class and effectively develop their abilities.
Teaching English through songs.
Developing listening skill
Bottom-up processingTop-down processing
Listening activities
Three stages in successful teaching listening:
Pre-listening• Prepare
students to listen
Whilst-listening• Students do
the main task
Post-listening• Students do
evaluation
Listening strategies
Rost (cited in Richards, 2008) introduces similar way to get successful teaching listening.Predicting InferringMonitoringClarifyingRespondingEvaluating
Principles of teaching listening
1. Focus on listening process
2. Combine listening and speaking in the classroom
3. Focus on comprehending meaning
4. Grade difficulty level
5. Include both bottom-up and top down listening
Benefits
Can memorize easily the alphabets and words
Can increase the ability of readingCan memorize the phonemic features