TEACHING LISTENING
TO YOUNG LEARNERS
A. Listening As The First Skill
Listening is the frist skill that children
acquire or learn before speaking,reading,
and writing.
These are several point that should be
paid attention for the teachers they
are
1. Remember that sunds that have been said, then it diappear (it must
clearly,repeat,and retell)
2. The listener has a very short attention span (consider the length of
time based on the level and or age)
3. Understand the listening of children not only the end of the
exercise but also so the process when the children listen.
4. Keep the key as a driver on listening subject or lesson it means a
teacher holds the rule of children behaving in the teaching and
learning process.
B. Knowing The Childrens Learning
Channels
The eseential of knowing learning channel is to apply
the properly methods or techniques in the classroom
especially on teaching listening.
As a teacher of young learners,we need to be
categories in learning channels which are auditory,
tactile,
And Visual.
Three are categories they are as follows :
Auditory
The children are able to receive listening lesson
by their hearing sensory easily.
2. Tactile
The children are able to receive listening lesson
by their tactile sensory easily.
3. Visual
The children are able to receive listening lesson
by their visual sensory easily.
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C.Classroom Techniques And Activities
Teaching listening skill needs a proper technique
so that activity in the classroom can work
effectively.Total Physical Response (TPR) is a
method or technique that can be used on teaching
listening properly. This method or technique really
needs childrens respond during the lesson. Probably,
for children less than eight years old need a promp
or demonstration from the teacher when they give
respond.
1.TPR WITH ONE
COMMAND AT TIME
TPR Technique is used at one
command at time from the teacher
gives an intruction to the student
for doing OPEN THE DOOR  and
the student does the instruced
command. In this case the teacher
must give the material before
giving an instruction so that the
students have already known the
commands vocabularies.
2.TPR SONGS
In the TPR songs a teacher gives the material
through singing a song and by listening from the
teachers song student can repeat the song altogether
with the teacher.
3. TPR FINGER-PLAYS
A teacher explain or tells the story
while she is practing her finger-plays
together with the students.
4. TPR STORYLTELLING
A story telling is preceded by a teacher will be
more interested if the teacher can mime and act
based on the story telling book. Besides, the story
book contains of a big picture which can entertain
the students. Here, the pictures that are preceded
on the book are based on the level of the students
or children.It depends on the necessary of listening
lesson target.
5.TPR YES / NO CARDS
YES
NO
Yes/No cards are
used to get students
attention on their
listening concentration
6. TPR DRAWING
A teacher given an
instruction and the students
respond by drawing based on
the teachers instruction
7. TPR SYLLABLE CLAPPING
A teacher a listening material by giving instruction
of clapping
8. TPR RHYMING WORD
ACTIVITIES
A teacher teaches the listening material by rhyming
the words , therefore , the students can easily
practice the rhyming words althogether with the
teacher.
9. TPR MINIMAL PAIRS
In the minimal pairs way, the children need to be
focused on their listening channel because they
have to differentiate the vocabularies pairs.
 Untuk vidio kamu bisa ditambahkan
dengan memutar lagu ini say for TPR
Fingure
 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iixmqoESD
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 the eensy weensy spider.
 Untuk TPR Song bisa cari ag twinkel litle
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