There are many things that can be used for teaching listening. For example, authentic audio, we can find in the railway station, airport, bus station, and other public places.
Teaching listening should focus on the process of listening rather than on the product of listening. If we teach listening but only focus on the product, then what we did consider as assessing the listening skill, not teaching.
Getting confuse about how to teach listening? Don't worry, I have some advises for you about how to teach listening for young learners and for college students.
In the past, teaching listening activity was student went to lab listening then the teaching activity was done there. Although nowadays there are still many schools do that. But, don't you know, that right now, teaching listening is not always sitting in the lab listening. We can do teaching listening everywhere and every time. With the power of internet right now, we can do what be impossible in the past, may possible in the present. There a thousand of websites that can be used for teaching listening. Here are some of them:
The awesome website! Here, we can find many kinds of listening. The owner divided it become 3 parts, Easy, Medium and Difficult. You can download each audio easily. The amazing part of this website is the website also provide the pre-listening, while listening, and also post-post listening activity. So, you do not need to be confuse to decide your pre-while-post listening activity. All of the features are free! Yeay!
2. BBC Learning English
We know that BBC website always helps us in learning English. As well as their tagline, "Inspiring Language Learning since 1943", we can find a lot of English material in this website. Start from grammar, pronunciation until four skills of language. For Listening material, we can find in BBC 6 Minute English or BBC The English We Speak. They not only provide us the audio but also the transcript of the audio. And, again, all of the features are FREE! Yeay!
A bundle of listening audio in this website with many different conversations. You can listen it for FREE! And also, you can read the transcript and practice interactive listening activities. This website provide listening audio for any level of students. Beginner, Intermediate, and Advance.
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