What is Listening Skill?
Why Listening Skill is Important?
🌺 Build comprehension (understanding meaning).
🌺 Improve pronunciation and vocabulary.
🌺 Enhance speaking skill because students learn natural sentences by listening.
🌺 Make classroom communication active and student-centered.
Types of Listening (Important for TSC Exam + Classroom Use)
1. Global Listening – listening for the main idea.
2. Detailed Listening – listening for specific details.
3. Selective Listening – listening for certain information (name, date, number).
4. Critical Listening – listening to evaluate and judge.
5. Creative Listening – listening to imagine and respond (stories, poems).
Method: The Three-Stage Listening Process
A. Pre-Listening Stage
It is a stage before listening and the main purpose is to prepare students’ mind for the audio. Teacher should:
🌺 Show picture/visual.
🌺 Ask simple questions: “What do you see? What might happen?
🌺 Pre-teach difficult words.
🌺 Tell students what they will listen for.
🌺 This activates their background knowledge.
B. While-Listening Stage
While listening stage the purpose is to help students understand the audio. Teacher should:
🌹 Play the audio or read the text clearly.
🌹 Give a task such as:
🌺 Tick the correct picture
🌺 Fill in the blanks or True/False
🌺 Answer short questions
🌺 Match information
🌺 Allow students to listen 2–3 times
This is the main listening practice stage of listening skills.
The main purpose of this stage is to check understanding and extend learning.
🌺 Ask students to summarize what they heard.
🌺 Let students discuss in pair or group.
🌺 Ask follow-up questions.
🌺 Do speaking or writing activities based on the audio.
This stage connects listening to speaking and writing
Classroom Techniques (Practical & Relevant in Nepal)
🌺 Use short and simple audios suitable for the grade level.
🌺 If no audio device, teacher can read the text with clear pronunciation.
🌺 Give clear instructions before playing audio.
🌺 Keep background noise low.
🌺 Use real-life listening examples: announcements, phone calls, dialogues.
🌺 Encourage students to guess meaning from context.
Useful Materials for teaching listening skills
🌺 Textbook audio clips
🌺 Teacher’s own reading
🌺 YouTube short audios and videos
🌺 Real-life sounds or conversations
🌺 Stories, rhymes, poems
Role of the Teacher (According to TSC Nepal)
🌺 Act as a facilitator, not a lecturer.
🌺 Guide students through all three stages (Pre-While-Post).
🌺 Create a positive learning environment.
🌺 Provide feedback after listening tasks.
🌺 Encourage active participation from all students.
By following the three-stage method and using simple, clear activities, teachers can make listening lessons successful, interactive, and aligned with TSC Nepal’s teaching-learning expectations.
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