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Volume 22:9 September 2022
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Teaching Listening in the Korean Language Classroom in India

Satish Chandra Satyarthi, M.Phil.¬¬¬¬

1. Introduction

Listening is one of the most basic language skills. This is the first language activity that human beings are exposed to after being born, even before being born. It is an accepted fact that listening contributes the most to the learning of L1. Speaking comes only much later, writing and reading even more lately. Speaking, itself, does not constitute communication unless what is being said is understood by another person (Rivers, 1966). Research says that out of our total communication time an average of 45% is spent listening compared to 30% speaking, 16% reading and 9% writing. (Adler, R. et al. 2001). But when it comes to second or foreign language teaching, listening gets the least attention among the 4 language skills (reading, writing, and speaking being the other 3 skills). Until 1970s listening was considered a passive skill and it was assumed that language learner would learn it by ‘osmosis’ (a term coined by Mendelsohn (1984)) without any assistance from teachers.

In the 1970s listening started getting attention of researchers as an important aspect of language learning. The Communicative language teaching approaches and Comprehensible Input Hypothesis (Krashen, 1982) gave research on listening a boost. After 2 decades of research, listening, now, has been recognized as a critical component of language learning and teaching but there is a still a huge gap between theory and practice in the classroom and much work remains to be done. (Morley, 2001)

The goal of most of Korean language learners is to be able (i) to get job in a Korean company or in the Korean process of an MNC, (ii) to go to a Korean university for higher studies or research, (iii) to successfully communicate with native speakers and (iv) to be able to enjoy Korean literature, movies, drama, and music by comprehending them. None of these goals is possible to reach without good listening skills in Korean language.

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Satish Chandra Satyarthi, M.Phil.
Centre for Korean Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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