LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:6 June 2016
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Teaching Listening Effectively:
Lecture-Based L2 Classroom Scenario

IshratZahan, M.A. (English), B.A. (Honors)
Jahanara Begum, M.A. (English), B.A. (Honors)

Abstract

As a teacher of English language and Literature in a country where English is a foreign or second language, the teachers cannot just make the students do different types of activities. They need to give long lectures too. The teachers often find their students not having the desired comprehension of their lectures. Coming from Non-English mother tongue background, most of the students lack the skill in listening to understand the lectures delivered by the teachers in English effectively. This creates frustration on part of the learners as well as with the teachers. Listening as a skill, in compare to the other language skills, is rather neglected. But listening as a skill cannot be ignored as it is a receptive skill. Receptive skills give way to the productive skills. That is why a less skilled learner in listening is more likely to produce undesirable result in his production of writing and speaking. It is because he cannot fully comprehend the lecture delivered by the teacher. In our paper we discussed why listening as a skill is so important, how the learners listen to comprehend, what are the reasons for which some learners are less skilled and last of all we tried to present some strategies which can be adopted by the teachers in a lecture based class to help the learners become more efficient in their listening so that they can comprehend the lecture delivered by the teacher and benefitted from the class.

Keywords: Lecture-based classroom, Second language teaching, EFL, ESL, efficient, receptive skill, productive skill, listening comprehension

Introduction

Listening is the ability to understand, identify and interpret what others are saying. Second language (L2) listening comprehension is a very complex process where the listeners not only have to discriminate between sounds or have to understand vocabulary and grammatical structures but also understand, interpret and retain these within the immediate context of the utterance. (Rost, 2002) defines listening in a process of receiving what the speaker actually says (receptive orientation); constructing and representing meaning (constructive orientation); negotiation meaning with speaker and responding (collaborative orientation) and creating meaning through involvement, imagination and empathy (transformative orientation). So overall listening requires a complex skill on part of the listener to become efficient.

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IshratZahan, M.A. (English), B.A.(Honors)
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Southeast University,Dhaka
Bangladesh

Jahanara Begum, M.A. (English), B.A.(Honors)
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecturer, Department of English
Southeast University, Dhaka
Bangladesh
jahan_southeast@hotmail.com

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