Teaching Listening to Young Learners through Songs

Presented by:1. Sari Afriza2. Pratiwi Pangestu Harso3. Rachmat Wahidi4. Riski Ananda

Scope of discussion

Introduction: Introducing teaching listening Teaching listening and Young Learners

Main stages: Developing skill of listening (bottom-up and top-down processing)

Listening activities and strategies Principles of teaching listening The song’s role in teaching listening to young learners

Introduction

Introducing teaching listeningTeaching listening to Young Learners

Young learner: a child who is in their first six years of formal education, from the age of 6—12.

Teacher should requires some strategies in order to make students comfortable in the class and effectively develop their abilities.

Teaching English through songs.

Developing listening skill

Bottom-up processingTop-down processing

Listening activities

Three stages in successful teaching listening:

Pre-listening• Prepare

students to listen

Whilst-listening• Students do

the main task

Post-listening• Students do

evaluation

Listening strategies

Rost (cited in Richards, 2008) introduces similar way to get successful teaching listening.Predicting InferringMonitoringClarifyingRespondingEvaluating

Principles of teaching listening

1. Focus on listening process

2. Combine listening and speaking in the classroom

3. Focus on comprehending meaning

4. Grade difficulty level

5. Include both bottom-up and top down listening

Benefits

Can memorize easily the alphabets and words

Can increase the ability of readingCan memorize the phonemic features