- Preview extracts from a local textbook.
o Form
2 Textbook Chapter 3: Famous Faces
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- How
closely do you feel that the listening process is mirrored in these materials?
o
Learners
are required to converse with a partner in classroom. One of them can take the
role of a famous personality. The roles of a fan and a famous person can be
reverse so that both the learners can have the chance to express, listen and
react.
- To what extent do they assist in developing the
listening skills of our learners?
o Authenticity exist in this task as the language
reflect real discourse when they are giving compliment and congratulate.
Language used is not difficult. For example ‘You sang the song beautifully.’
The other partner has to listen for the compliment and give acknowledgement.
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- How closely do you feel that the listening
process is mirrored in these materials?
o Learners
are required to listen to the conversation in order to fill in the blanks to
complete the statements given in the task. It is a must for learners to listen
attentively to given conversation, if they fail to do so, they will not be able
to answer the questions correctly.
o In
task B, the situation is the same. Learners are to listen to the conversation
again to answer the questions given in task B.
- To what extent do they assist in developing the
listening skills of our learners?
o Learners
are to listen to the conversation attentively in order to understand and also
identify the answers. Learners
are listening for a purpose, with this, they will pay more attention to
the conversation given.
o Not
only that, learners have a
background knowledge regarding the theme of the conversation as they
have learnt it in the previous tasks. This allows them to be familiar and have
a rough idea on the conversation where top-down processing occurs.
o The
more exposure the listener has to them, the greater the ability to comprehend.
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- How closely do you feel that the listening
process is mirrored in these materials?
o
In
activity A, learners are required to say words after the teacher. This activity
focuses on the consonants of /v/ and /w/.
o In activity B, learners are required to pronounce
words that they have learned in activity A.
- To what extent do they assist in developing the
listening skills of our learners?
o
In
activity A, it is a bottom-up practice activity. Learners have to listen and
repeat to the words after the teacher. Learners have to pay attention and
listen accurately to the sound in order for them to get the pronunciation
correctly.
o
In
activity B, it is a top-down activity since learners have to use their schemata
of correct pronunciation of the words so that they can say the sentences aloud.
This encourage learners to discuss what they already know about.
o
We
noticed that this activity has both bottom-up and top-down approach.
Correlation between two approaches can help the learners to sharpen their
listening skill.
- Preview extracts from a local textbook.
o Form
2 Textbook Chapter 13: Our Green Heritage
Page 179
- How closely do you feel that the listening
process is mirrored in these materials?
o For
activity A, the learners are to listen to a recording and then pay attention to
the sequence of the story. After that, they need to sequence the picture given
in the textbook.
o For
activity B, the learners need to listen to the recording again and then they
need to sequence the sentences given in the textbook.
·
To
what extent do they assist in developing the listening skills of our learners?
o For
activity A and B, the learners are listening for a purpose, they need to listen attentively to
details from the recording.
o The
task relates to top down
process as it requires learners’ background knowledge to enable them to
relate the description of recording with the picture given.
