Using technology to teach oral communication skills

✓what are some sources of listening materials?

   -Prodcasts * used alot and are good for self study 

   - Textbook recording

   -DVD and radio *which aren't used anymore

   - Teacher/ student talk 

✓Whatvare some apps that are now used to listen?

  -Spotify 

  -Youtube 

  - Apple Music 

✓ Activities for oral communication skills:-

   1) Pre-Listening:

•Activating schemata/predicting *Activating the student's knowledge 

• Listening in the lesson — the sequence

• What a listener needs to know before listening

• Establishing reasons for listening * by making the lesson interesting 

• Generating questions

• Pre-teaching vocabulary

**How can we use technology in Pre-Listening activities?

  - collecting students ideas on googlebook

  - Taking digital notes

  - Mind map on digital notebooks 

    

   2) While listening:

•Listening for gist *Important information 

•Listening for detail

•Inferring *trying to understand what is being taught 

•Participating actively

•Note-taking

•Dictation

•Listen and do

    3)Post - listening:

•Reflecting

•Checking and summarising

•Discussion

•Creative responses

•Critical responses

• Information exchange

•Problem-solving

• Deconstructing the listening text

•Reconstructing the listening text

✓What are some listening and speaking activities?

• Guess who

• Superheroes

• Roleplays

• Listen & Draw

• Background Music

• Listen & Drive

• Not Quite the Truth

• Role-played Reported Interviews

• Creating Commercials

• Chinese Whisper