TEACHING LISTENING

Abstract

Listening really deserves very close attention during the teaching process of a foreign language. It is one of the main reasons for offering the students a chance to listen to spoken English and hear different varieties of pronunciation and accents rather than just the voice of the teacher. It also develops the students’ abilities to understand and respond to spoken language. The differences lie not only in the way the sounds are pronounced, but also in grammar (the use of “shall” in northern varieties compared with the use in Standard English, the southern BBC type variety, the grammatical coherent use of “done” and “I done it” in non-standard English). The given paper also makes a systematization of the main principles in teaching listening and gives a review for each of them. When being applied into practice, the theory may not work properly, so there are different scenario such as replaying, offering the written text, role-playing and other methods.