Tutorial Task Week 9: Materials for Teaching of Listening

Form 2 Textbook
Topic: Looking Good, Feeling Great

1. How closely do you feel that the listening process is mirrored in these materials?

Stages of Feedback

Stage 1: Receiving
Receiving refers to the intentional focus on hearing a speaker’s message, which happens when we filter out other sources. The main objective of the talk is to listen and detect the missing information to fill in the blanks. The talk is related to personal hygiene so the students need to focus on listening to the steps on personal hygiene only. If the talk is quite long and includes other elements such as effects of personal hygiene, then the students' mind will automatically filter these information because it is considered to be unimportant to them.

Stage 2: Understanding
Understanding process takes place when the students attempt to learn the meaning (which is not always easy). The students will make attempt to learn the meaning of the talk and when they encountered a new vocabulary for example, they will make an effort to predict the synonym of the word.

Stage 3: Remembering
The process of remembering is when the students try to recall what have been said that they might have missed along the talk. While the students struggle to understand the meaning of the talk throughout the process, they might have missed some information or answers and try to recall on what have been mentioned earlier.

Stage 4: Evaluating
The process of evaluating takes place commonly when they are in the process of judging the value of the message. For example, once the students have collected the answers, they will try to make sense and value the message; whether they are relevant or important.

Stage 5: Feedback
Feedback indicates teachers' involvement, for example; after the listening task, the teacher plays their role by asking one or two representatives from the class to give their answers so that the students will feel more motivated to learn in the class.

2) To what extent do they assist in developing the listening skills of our students?

a) It teaches the students to find keywords, or in other words, it is a good practice for them to focus on what’s important/relevant. Based on the listening task given in the Looking Good Feeling Great (pg 121), the students are required to listen to a recorded audio talk to get the answers to fill in the blanks. Therefore, the students need to listen intently to get the correct answers-filter unimportant words/information and focus on answering the questions.

b) It enables the students to figure out/identify the correct way to pronounce words/tone in English. Language acquisition can be done effectively by using several method e.g. by watching English based program, listening to songs and etc. Academically thinking, listening to a good speaker is a good way to acquire the language better. Even though, the recorded talk is one-way communication but still the students are able to check on actual/correct manner of utterances as well as the tone of the speech of the speaker. Later, the students will imitate the speaker and slowly, they make progress.

c) It enhances the students' cognitive skills. Cognitive skills refers to an individual’s ability to process or synthesize information, filter unimportant information and store essential knowledge in short-term memory or long term memory. Based on the listening activity in the Looking Good Feeling Great topic (page 121), the students are required to listen to a recorded talk for twice. First, the students will be given some time to read and understand the questions before the teacher proceed to play the recorded talk. Some students might have gotten the answers right away while certain students may face difficulties to familiarize with the intonation, accent, pitch and pronunciation of the speaker and could have missed the important elements (answers). When the talk is being played for the second time, this opens up chances for the students to focus on the missed elements and take note while for some students, they can take this opportunity to check their answers.


Powerpoint Presentation

Group members:
Anasuhah Binti Buyong
Ainatul Mardhiah Binti Manin
Jeeivita Kathirvellu Pillai
Nur Nabilah Huda Binti Hamdan