1. Real-life Listening and Its Implication in the Teaching of Listening
Lei Haiyan
Taiyuan University of Science and Technology

2. Introduction A contradictory picture in teaching listening
there is much to do for us language teachers
the ultimate goal of English language teaching
equip students with the ability to deal with real-life listening

3. What’s real-life listening
1.Listening purposes and listening situations
2. Main features of real-life listening
Purpose and expectation
2) Visibility of the speaker
3) Response
4) Environmental clues
5) Instantaneousness

4. Implications for the Teaching of Listening
1. Engaging students in the pre-listening stage
2. Setting appropriate tasks and providing guidance in skill-training in while-listening stage
3. Teacher-student and student-student interaction in post-listening stage
4. Effective use of audio-visual and authentic listening materials

5. 1. Engaging students in the pre-listening stage
1) To motivate students
2) To get students prepared
3) To provide background information

6. 2. Setting appropriate tasks and providing guidance in skill-training in while-listening stage

7. 1) Teacher-student interaction
3. Teacher-student and student-student interaction in post-listening stage
1) Teacher-student interaction
a. Encouraging students’ reaction to the text
b. Focusing students on analysis of the language
c. Providing positive feedback to students
2) Student-student interaction
Imitation
roll-play

8. 4. Effective use of audio-visual and authentic listening materials
use of audio-visual listening materials
select suitable authentic materials