Listening text extract from F2 textbook (Topic: Looking Good, Feeling Great)
1) How closely do you feel that the listening process is mirrored in these materials?
Stage 1: Receiving
-Intentional focus on hearing a speaker’s message, which happens when we filter out other sources
Eg: The main objective of the talk is to listen and detect the missing information to fill in the blanks. The talk is related to personal hygiene so the students need to focus on listening to the steps on personal hygiene only. If the talk is quite long and include other elements such as effects of personal hygiene, then the students mind will automatically filter these information because it is considered to be unimportant to them.
Stage 2: Understanding
- Attempt to learn the meaning (which is not always easy)
Eg: The students will make attempt to learn the meaning of the talk-new vocabulary * and predict the synonym of the word.
Stage 3: Remembering
-Trying to recall back what has been said (might have missed)
Eg: While the students struggle to understand the meaning in the process, they might have missed relevant information or answers and try to recall back on what has been mentioned earlier.
Stage 4: Evaluating
- Judging the value of the message
Eg: After got the answers, the students try to make sense and value the message-is it important? Is it relevant?
Stage 5: Feedback
- Indicate your involvement
Eg : After the listening task, the teacher plays their role by asking one or two representatives from the class to give their answers before giving their answers so that the students will feel more motivated to learn in the class.
2) To what extend do they assist in developing the listening skills of our students?
I. Teaches the students to find the keywords, in other words, focus on what’s important/relevant
-Based on the listening task given in the Looking Good Feeling Great (pg 121), the students are required to listen to a recorded audio talk to get the answers to fill in the blanks. Therefore, the students need to listen intently to get the correct answers-filter unimportant words/information and focus on answering the questions.
II. Enables the students to figure out/identify the correct way for pronouncing words/tone
-Language acquisition can be done effectively by using several method-watching English based program, listening to songs and etc. Academically thinking, listening to a good speaker is a good way to acquire the language better. Even though, the recorded talk is one- way communication but still the students able to check on actual/correct manner of utterances as well as the tone of the speech of the speaker. Later, the students will imitate the speaker and slowly, they make progress.
III. Enhances the cognitive skills of the students
-What is defined as cognitive skills? Cognitive skills refers to an individual’s ability to process or synthesise information, filter unimportant information and store essential knowledge in short-term memory or long term memory. Based on the listening activity in the Looking Good Feeling Great topic (page 121), the students are required to listen to a recorded talk for twice. First, the students will be given some time to read and understand the questions before the teacher proceed to play the recorded talk. Some students might have gotten the answers right away while certain students may face difficulties to familiarize with the intonation, accent, pitch and pronunciation of the speaker and could have missed the important elements (answers). When the talk is being played for the second time, this opens up chances for the students to focus on the missed elements and take note while for some students, they can take this opportunity to check their answers.
*Powerpoint presentation
Group
Anasuhah binti buyong
Jeeivita Kathirvelu Pillai
Nabilah Huda Bt Hamdan
Ainatul Mardiah Bt Manin
Reflection on week 9
For this task, we choose English form 2 textbook and the topic is Looking Good, Feeling Great. From the extract that we choose, we believe that the listening process involved in the materials comprises of five stages that are receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating and feedback. Moreover, for this listening activity, the students are asked to listen carefully in order for them to fill in the blanks. From this aspect, the students will learn on how to filter which information is relevant. Apart from that, the speaker also has a good and clear pronunciation which can help the students to listen on how certain words are being pronounced correctly. Apart from that, the listening topic from this activity is regarding the personal hygiene which the students familiar with and it is not hard to comprehend either, thus we believe that the material used is very suitable for them and they are able to predict the answer for certain questions.
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