TEACHING LISTENING
Presented by Group 5
Date: May 6th, 2026
Lecturer: Mrs. Lê Thị Thanh Hà
Lesson Outline
01 What does real-life listening
involve?
02 Listening Procedures
03 Characteristics of a
communicative activity
I. What does real-life listening involve?
Listening is not a passive skill, but
an active process (Harmer, 2015)
Real-life listening = listening + speaking + interaction
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Characteristics of real-life listening (Ur, 1996)
Characteristic Description
Informal spoken Language is natural, with everyday vocabulary, less structured
discourse grammar, and typically no repetition.
Listener expectation Listeners usually have some expectation and a clear purpose;
& purpose they often have prior knowledge about the speaker or the topic.
Looking as well as Listeners do not only listen but also use visual cues such as
listening facial expressions and gestures.
Ongoing listener Listeners tend to respond while listening, rather than waiting
response until the end.
Speakers pay attention to listeners and adjust their speech
Speaker attention
accordingly, creating interaction.
Characteristic Description
Informal spoken Language is natural, with everyday vocabulary, less structured
discourse grammar, and typically no repetition.
Listener expectation Listeners usually have some expectation and a clear purpose;
& purpose they often have prior knowledge about the speaker or the topic.
Looking as well as Listeners do not only listen but also use visual cues such as
listening facial expressions and gestures.
Ongoing listener Listeners tend to respond while listening, rather than waiting
response until the end.
Speakers pay attention to listeners and adjust their speech
Speaker attention
accordingly, creating interaction.
⇒ Design Real-life listening in the classroom
Real-life listening in classroom
A contradiction
Cannot be fully real-life Should include real-life features
Listening texts and Listening tasks
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Listening texts and Listening tasks
Listening Texts Listening Tasks
Informal talk Expectation: know what to
Speaker visibility expect
Single exposure Purpose: clear task/response
Ongoing response: respond
while listening
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II. PROCEDURES FOR
TEACHING LISTENING
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Procedures for Teaching Listening
Pre-listening
While-listening
Post-listening
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1) Pre-listening
Lead-in
Vocabulary Pre-teaching
Comprehension task
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1) Pre-listening
Lead-in
Discuss a topic to activate Ss’ schemata
Engage Ss into a topic
Ask Ss to predict what a listening text is about
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1) Pre-listening
Prediction can be conducted through:
Pictures/ Videos Questions TEACHING LISTENING
TEXTBOOK: Global Success 10
UNIT 1 - LISTENING: Family Support
1) Pre-listening
Vocabulary pre-teaching
Pick out key words in the listening text and
teach them.
Remove some barriers to Ss’ understanding
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1) Pre-listening
Comprehension task
T introduces Type 1 task to Ss.
⟶ Ss do this task to get a general understanding of
the listening text.
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1) Pre-listening
Comprehension task
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2) While-listening
Text-related task
Text-related task: any kind of follow-up activities
focusing on more detailed responses to the
content or aspects of language in the text.
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2) While-listening
Type 2
task
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3) Post-listening
*Games:
Vocabulary review
*Speaking:
Role-plays
Debates/ Group discussions
*Writing:
Short summary writing, responses to the audio, etc
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3) Post-listening
Speaking: Group discussion
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Top-down listening
Top-down listening: an
approach where Ss first
attempt to understand the
overall, general meaning of
what they are listening.
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Bottom-up listening
Bottom-up listening happens
when listeners concentrate on
understanding individual
words as a way of
understanding the whole.
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Are they are top-down or
bottom-up?
Top-down
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Are they are top-down or
bottom-up?
Bottom-up
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III. Characteristics of a
communicative activity
Activities that are truly communicative, have three features
in common (M. Shirvan, 2015)
Information gap
Choice
Information gap
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A speaker can assess
One person in an The speaker can
if their purpose was
exchange has choose what and
achieved by the
knowledge that the how to say
feedback from the
other does not. something.
listener.
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References
1. Harmer, J. (2015). The practice of English language
teaching (5th ed.). Pearson.
2. M, Shirvan (2015) A Synthetic Approach to Methods in
Language Teaching
3. Ur, P. (1996). A course in language teaching: Practice
and theory. Cambridge University Press.
4. UK Essays. (2018). Characteristics Of Communicative
Language Teaching English Language Essay.
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Thank you for
attentive listening!
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