國小英語聽說教學Teaching in Listening & Speaking

員林國小何舜琳

Listening Activities 1.Warm-up: introduce the topic and focus their attention 2. Listen and respond: listen to a text and respond in a variety of ways 3. Follow-up: practice what they have learned using the other language skills

Techniques used to encourage learners to listen 1. Listen and complete 2. Listen and correct 3. Listen and do 4. Listen and draw 5. Listen and guess 6. Listen and match 7. Listen and reorder

Speaking Activities 1. Setting up: The topic may be demonstrated to the whole class, or learners may make materials to be used during the speaking practice. 2. Speaking practice: Learners communicate with each other in pairs or groups, or compete as teams. 3. Feedback: A few of the learners may report to the rest of the class. The teacher gives feedback.

Speaking practice

A kind of bridge between the classroom and the world outside

Features needed to build this bridge: 1. Practice opportunities 2. Purposeful communication 3. Meaningful situations

Techniques used to create meaningful contexts 1. Ask and answer 2. Describe and draw 3. Discussion 4. Guessing 5. Remembering 6. Miming 7. Ordering 8. Completing a form/questionnaire 9. Role play

Classroom organization

Introduce pair-and group work gradually.

Tell the learners who to work with.

Give clear signals to show when each stage of the activity begins and ends.

The teacher’s role

1. Explainer

2. Controller

3. Evaluator

websites

1. Starfall http://www.starfall.com/2. Dave’s ESL cafe http://www.eslcafe.com/3. BBC http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/

4. ESL-kids http://www.esl-kids.com/worksheets/worksheets.html5. Story online http://www.storylineonline.net/