Reflection On Listening And Speaking 1p4n4b

REFLECTION ON LISTENING AND SPEAKING This is the first week of our third phase course at ELTC. The trainers help me to understand the right methods and concepts of teaching Listening and Speaking in the classroom. It is important for me to teach my pupils with the right methods and skills so that my pupils are able to receive the right information throughout their learning by improving their listening and speaking abilities. It is very important for the pupils to become effective listeners and good speaker to enable them gain more knowledges during their learning process. Before I am able to help these pupils to be a good listener and speaker, I must equip myself with the skills and strategies to teach them well. Based on DSKP, as a teacher, I need to help these pupils to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts that suit their level of knowledges and developments. The trainer help us by explaining and showing us few examples that will help me in planning different teaching approaches, lessons and materials that suits the different needs and abilities of my pupils so that I can help them to develop their full potential. The aim of teaching listening and speaking are to make pupils listen and encourage them to speak so that they can establish their abilities to communicate in real life. First, pupils need to learn to listen, speak and share thoughts; ideas and feelings without hesitate or shy to express themselves. The trainers help us to identify and address the challenges in teaching listening and speaking skills by asking us to discuss among us so that we are able to share the experiences that were face by others. We gain a lot of inputs because we come from different kind of schools and backgrounds that help us to find ways to cater what we need to do to help our pupils. I need to provide opportunities for the pupils to practice and carry out a range of tasks to facilitate the progression of their skills. It is important for me to really understand the concepts of teaching listening and speaking because it is the main channel of classroom instruction and language skills during their lessons, The trainers show us the 3P stages in teaching listening and speaking, where there are lots of suitable and meaningful activities at each stage to provide input and ample opportunities for my pupils to practice and use the language. The first stage is the presentation stage, in this stage I need to prepare pupils for listening. The second stage is the practice stage where I need to provide opportunities to listen and develop their understanding and the last one is the production stage.

The trainers help me to understand the important of writing SMART objectives so that I can have guidelines on what to achieve during my teaching session. The knowledges really help me a lot. I hope I will be able to teach listening and speaking better in the future.