Listening

In this weeks readings I found the types of classroom listening performance helpful. The six types are reactive, intensive, responsive, selective, extensive, and interactive. I found these interesting because these are ways in which students listen and depending on the activity students can use all of these types of listening or just one. This is important for me because I have to know how I want my students to listen during any given activity. If I want my students to be reactive listeners. I could just want them to repeat what i said. For the sole purpose of repetition and exposure to the language. In extensive listening, I might want my students to listen to a newsbroadcast and then create a picture based on what they heard. The purpose of this activity would be for the students to recreate what they heard in a different mode. i.e. drawing. The best way to learn listening is to incorporate other skills into listening activities. By using different skills students have to work with the content they just heard. Allowing them to try draw can help make the activity meaningful for them.