Listening: a challenging skill to teach

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Jeanette Valencia Robles

Abstract

This scientific paper presents a revision of some articles and studies related to the
teaching and learning of the listening skill in a foreign language (Gakonga, 2015; Goh,
1999; Richards, 2008; Sternberg, Sternberg, & Mio, 2012; Ur, 1996). Throughout the
sections, the author aims to support the idea that although this skill is challenging for both
teachers and students, it is possible to plan, monitor, and evaluate its development
provided that three aspects are taken into account: the complexity of the skill, teachers’
demanding role, and students’ active role. The first section describes what it is involved in
the listening process. The section mainly addresses students’ internal factors that learners
use to deal with the task and succeed in it. The second section is a revision of what
teachers can do to improve their teaching. This section gives ideas to help learners
overcome the difficulties mentioned in the previous section. Finally, the third section
illustrates what activities teachers could prepare for the pre, while and post listening
stages to encourage students to take an active role in their own learning process. All in all,
this paper intends to raise teachers’ concern about the challenges students face when
working on the listening skill as well as what educators can do to facilitate the teaching
and learning process of this skill.

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How to Cite

Listening: a challenging skill to teach. (2017). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 59-65. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2017.4034