LISTENING

The Meaning Listening

While intensive listening may be more effective in terms of developing specific aspects of listening ability, extensive listening is more effective in building fluency and maintaining learner motivation

1. Active listening                                    

2. Appreciative listening

3. Auditory agnostic

4. Auditory processing disorder

5. Dialogical listening

6. Informational listening

7. Workplace listening

How about Benefits and Tips Listening on Story telling

Storytelling - Benefits and Tips

What can storytelling offer?
Storytelling and intercultural understanding

Other benefits of using storytelling in the classroom
Commonalities of cultures around the world

Performance techniques

What can storytelling offer?
Children have an innate love of stories. Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the world. Storytelling and intercultural understanding

There are a number of ways in which storytelling can enhance intercultural understanding and
communication. Stories can…

1. allow children to experience diverse cultures
2. enable children to empathies with unfamiliar people/places/situations
3. help children understand how wisdom is common to all peoples/all cultures
4. offer insights into universal life experiences
5. help children consider new ideas
6. reveal differences and commonalities of cultures around the world

Other benefits of using storytelling in the classroom

Stories…

1. Increase children's willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings
2. Encourage active participation
3. Increase verbal proficiency
4. Encourage cooperation between students
5. Enhance listening skills

Commonalities of cultures around the world

Stories reveal universal truths about the world. Through stories we see how very different people share the same life experiences and how human nature can transcend culture

Performance techniques

Telling a story can captivate an audience…that is, with the right techniques and a little practice:

Remembering and retelling the plot:

1. use story skeletons to help you remember the key events
2. tell yourself the story in your own words
3. create your own version of the story (adapt and improvise)
4. retell it numerous times until it feels like a story

Performance skills.

Remember to...

1. use your face, body and gestures (let your body speak)
2. maintain engaging eye contact with the audience/ individual listeners
3. use different, exaggerated character voices

Young Learners share a remarkable variety of personal experiences, values and ways of understanding.




  

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