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Teaching English in Buenos Aires: Teaching Listening Skills
It is important to know how to incorporate every type of language learning into your English classes, these include speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
In the following blogs, we will cover each one so that you can implement them into your following English lessons in Buenos Aires.
Lesson 2: Teaching Listening skills
- One of the most important aspects to teaching listening is to make sure you have you students attention. This means practising listening skills should always be combined with exercises/games that really interest the student. Also, it is very important to start with small steps, and do go beyond the students level. If challenged to much, the student will be frustrated and give up.
- Teach listening skills in short time periods. Don’t have your beginner student listen to a 10 minute video tape and then expect them to report back in English. Start with 30second or 1 minute exercises and go from there. Have them watch commercials or very short periods of a film, then practise their listening skills.
- Try to incorporate other senses with listening lessons. Have them read the same script as they are listening to, that way they can get an idea of what the word looks like and how it sounds at the same time. They will more likely remember the word and how to say it in the future.
- Have them practice speaking with listening. The two are so closely related that they must be taught together, and this in turn will make both improve much more quickly.
- Remember, as a TEFL teacher, always be patient with your students. Learning a new language can be very difficult, but with the right support, you will be amazed how quickly your students will learn!
Check out previous Lesson: Writing
