Listening

Objectives

 * To create an awareness of the importance of developing listening skill focusing on different sub skills of listening.
 * To develop the ability to listen and comprehend different types of listening texts.
 * To achieve greater intelligibility between the addresser and addressee by developing the oral skills in terms of pronunciation, word stress, sentence stress and intonation for effective communication.

Input
Listening is the first skill in the hierarchy of language skills as it acts as an input for speaking. The other two literacy skills namely, Reading and Writing are to a great extent dependent on the primary language skills i.e., Listening and Speaking. Hence, listening forms the foundation on which language learning takes place.

Listening skill involves the following sub skills which need to be focused upon while developing listening comprehension.

Sub skills of listening

 * Discriminating sounds in isolated word-forms
 * Discriminating sounds in connected speech
 * Discriminating stress patterns within words
 * Understanding intonation patterns and interpreting attitudinal meaning

Activities to develop Listening skill

 * 1) Listen and do
 * 2) Listen and repeat
 * 3) Listening to directions
 * 4) Listening to a passage/story/dialogues
 * 5) Listening to an announcement


 * Listen and Do (following instructions to draw a diagram)




 * Listening to Directions (giving and receiving directions to reach different destinations using a road map)


 * Railway announcement (listening to details)

''“May I have your attention please…passengers travelling to Mumbai by the Udyan Express no. 11302 at  5.30 pm are requested to board the train on platform no. 9 instead of 7. Inconvenience is regretted.”''