Listening skills are tied to speaking and pronunciation skills.
Most likely if a student can correctly pronounce something and speak it in a natural and common way, she will understand it when she hears it spoken. When you have the opportunity to teach pronunciation and listening together, you will see many similarities in the content that you are covering.
Once again, you will be teaching students about reductions, linking, stress and rhythm in natural speech. But you will also, as in teaching reading, be teaching students to listen for main ideas and details. Like pre-reading, you also set the stage with pre-listening activities to set the context for listening.
Teaching listening skills is rewarding as students can often make huge gains rather quickly if given proper instruction.
Read the following links for discussions about teaching listening skills:
Listening Comprehension
http://www.englishraven.com/SLAC_listening_comprehension.html
Teaching Listening Skills. Concepts and Exercises.An excellent page (read the sub-pages too!)
http://www.abax.co.jp/listen/index.html
Excellent pronunciation and listening videos for EFL students provided by Stacy Hagen can be found HERE at YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishwithStacy
These videos are primarily for EFL students, not so much for teachers, but they can give you an excellent idea of how to teach the very things we have addressed on these pages. These are really worth watching. Stacy is one of the most skilled, practical and straight-forward EFL teachers you will ever find.
You will find that you can make either a pronunciation lesson OR a listening lesson from any one of her videos. Excellent!
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