TEACHING LISTENING THROUGH COLLABORATIVE WORK: CAN WE DO IT?

Havid Ardi

Abstract


Listening is one of the skills that should be mastered by any language learners. It usually defines as the ability to identify and understand what others are saying or talking about. However, it is not an easy task. It requires understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning. Therefore, in teaching listening, teachers need to pay attention on how to help the learner to master this skill. In fact, the way of teaching listening seems to be boring and stressful. The students just sit and listen to the text and fill the blanks or listen to the question. It is merely like a test. This paper aims at sharing the way of teaching listening by using group work or collaborative activities. Listening activities should be challenging and interactive. It must be taught integrated. These activities are aimed at encouraging and facilitating students to take advantage of collaborative activity in order to practice listening skills and communicate and negotiate with others.

 


Keywords


collaborative listening, listening skill, listening for main ideas, listening for details, group work

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brown, S. 2006. Teaching Listening. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bruffee, K. A. 1973. “Collaborative Learning: Some Practical Models” College English, Vol. 34, No. 5 (Feb., 1973), pp. 634-643 URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/375331 Accessed: 15/09/2008 14:26.

Chizhik, A. 1998. “Collaborative learning through high-level verbal interaction: From theory to practice.”The Clearing House, 72, pp.58–62.

Gokhale, A.A. 1995. “Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking” in Journal of Technology Education. Vol. 7 No. 1.

Helgesen, B., Brown, S., & Smith, D. 1997. Active Listening Expanding: Understanding through content. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Liubinienė, V. 2009. “Developing Listening Skills in CLIL.” Kalbu Studijos. No. 15. Page 89-93.

Luo, C. 2008. “An Action Research Plan for Developing and Implementing the Students’ Listening Comprehension Skills”.English Language Teaching.Vol. 1 No. 1 2008.Page.25-28.

Maxom, M. 2009. Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Dummies. Chichester: John Wiley & Son, Ltd.

Remedios, L., Clarke, D.,& Hawthorne, L. 2008. “Framing Collaborative Behaviors: Listening and Speaking in Problem-basedLearning”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 2(1).Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1541-5015.1050

Saricoban, A. 1999. “The Teaching of Listening” The Internet TESL Journal Vol. V No. 12 December 1999. Available at http://iteslj.org/Articles/Saricoban-Listening.html.

Saun, Saunir and Ardi, Havid. 2013. Approach, Method, dan Technique dalam Pengajaran Bahasa Inggris. (Draf Buku). Padang: FBS Universitas Negeri Padang.

Soller, A., Goodman, B., Linton, F., & Gaimari, R. 1998.“Promoting effective peer interaction in an intelligent collaborative learning system.” In Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 186-195). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2016 Proceedings of SELT FBS Universitas Negeri Padang



This Proceedings is Currently indexed by:

Google Scholar.

The Proceedings of International Seminar on English Language and Teaching is registered at LIPI