There are 4 special considerations in teachiing listening and speaking for EFL learners and also effective teaching tips for English teachers.

1. 5Considerations in Teaching Listening and Speaking California University of San Bernardino EESL542D Listening and Speaking in TESOL Team #1: In Young Choi JaEun Kim Kyung Chun Kim Min Jeong Kim

2. Special Considerations in Teaching Listening

3. I. The lack of teaching method Follows are reasons why we use a traditional method which is test preparing approach and unwillingly apply various effective listening methods. focused on writing and reading capacity rather than speaking and listening one Test-centered education circumstance The lack of opportunities to face the necessary to learn authentic tasks. This is the image students are having listening lesson of English at a public school.

5. Build prior knowledge with provided appropriate background information about the topic by teachers

7. Brainstorm and discuss in pairs or groups

8. View films or photos

10. Summarize a speaker's presentation orally, in writing, or as an outline

11. Review their notes and add information that they did not have an opportunity to record during the speech

13. Reading: further research on a topic or a contradictory viewpoint

17. Some Ideas of Class Activities for DictationListening to a song - Songs usually do not contain various English accents, but this activity will bring students’ alive participation. - Pre-Listening: Introduce new vocabulary. - While-Listening: Fill in the blanks Correct wrong words of lyrics etc. - Post-Listening: Students share their favorite songs. Listening to a short conversation - Pre-Listening: Predict what is happening with given titles or pictures/ Introduce new words for listening. - While-Listening: Fill in the blanks/ Put sentences in order - Post-Listening: Role-playing based on given situations.

19. Students are expected to understand main ideas of English by being exposed to various English accents.

20. Through this activity, students are also exposed to the target culture.

21. Some Class Activities using Video Clips;Fill in the blanks (words/ idioms/ slangs/ jargons/ sentences like common expressions etc.) Predicting the main ideas - Students predict what is going to happen next. – Before watching the clip - After watching some parts of the clip

24. Listen again/ fill in the blanks on the provided scripture

25. Listen again + summarize in their own words

28. The students speak in totally native language in real life.

29. The students don’t have enough opportunities to make use of any vocabularies, phrases, or expression that they learned from the classes.

31. Allow the students communicative activities to practice using real-like settings: Situational conversation, Role-playing, Discussion, Debate, Presentation, Authentic task

32. Let the students learn autonomous self-regulated learning process: The teacher teaches scaffolding process so that they develop a plan, resolve a problem, complete an assignment and evaluate themselves working “together”.

37. Speaking class needs comfortable circumstances so that students can speak actively feeling free. But lack of interaction can’t create such comfortable circumstances.

39. Giving motivation to students asking information about their interests like dreams, favorite stars, and sports, then having them present their idea to class

41. Effective teaching method - 2 Dreams Show students some jobs to think of their dreams Ask students to draw their dreams on a canvas. Have students explain the pictures to partners and a teacher. Have students write things to make dreams come true. 5. Have all students present their resolutions for their dreams to class.

42. Are you ready? Everyone? You have to explain the holidays you will see to your leader. Go for it! Effective teaching method - 3 Games Ask students to make ten-member groups. Each group leader draws lots to select one of many topics. Topics are like place, sport, job, holiday, etc. Each group member takes turns to explain words to their leader and the leader guesses the words. If one can’t explain, using gestures is acceptable. The winner team will get candy from a teacher. What is the day? people wear ghost clothes and go around to get candy saying “Trick or treat.” What is the day? We can tell lies to people. So we make fun of other people all day long. What is the day? Boys and girls give and take gifts such as chocolate and candy. Time’s up! Good job!

43. I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way