English Listening Essay

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In terms of applying videos in the English listening class, Harmer (2007) suggests that students should be provided with opportunity to watch while they listen because it has many uses in the classroom. Firstly, it offers students rich contextual settings of language in use. As watching videos, students can acquire language as well as paralinguistic cues involving the match between tones and facial expressions, between utterances and gestures and rule of behaviors. These non-language clues make the listening class become more real-life settings because “in most situation, listen is not an aural activity. We can usually able to see speaker who provides non-verbal clues to meaning, for example, lip movement, facial expression and gesture” …show more content…

To employ authentic materials and videos in classrooms, there are many actions should be carried out to make sure the proper implementation in class. First, teachers should be aware of the new methods and techniques in teaching and selecting authentic materials and videos in English listening class, thus seminars or short courses should be organized and opened to wide range of teachers throughout Vietnam. Second, it is of importance to provide teachers and students with necessary facilities to support teaching and learning English with videos such as projectors, TV screen or computer with internet connection in the classroom. Moreover, they should be provided with opportunities to easily access the authentic sources. Designing more laboratories with computer and internet access is a useful approach to help students and teacher to reach the authentic materials. School libraries should be equipped with plenty of English books, magazines, stories to help students familiar with these kinds of materials. When used properly with the above-discussed techniques and approaches, authentic materials and videos are beneficial to teachers and learners of English language not in listening lesson only, but also in other skills of English

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