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Exploiting online materials in teaching listening skills

Listening has been paid much attention to by language researchers and teachers. Many researchers have been conducted on how to teach and learn listening skills effectively. However, as far as the writers have investigated, most of the researches focus largely on methods of teaching and learning rather than on exploiting new sources of authentic materials for teachers to make use of. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE Vol. 57 No. 1 pp. 37-43 EXPLOITING ONLINE MATERIALS IN TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS Nguyen Thi Huong Lan Hanoi Nationnal University of Education E-mail chilanb2@yahoo.com Abstract. Listening has been paid much attention to by language re- searchers and teachers. Many researchers have been conducted on how to teach and learn listening skills effectively. However as far as the writers have investigated most of the researches focus largely on methods of teach- ing and learning rather than on exploiting new sources of authentic materials for teachers to make use of. Thus the purpose of this article is to give for- mal guidelines in using online materials as supplementary materials to teach listening skills. Keyworld listening skills teach listening skills online materials. 1. Introduction Authentic materials enable learners to interact with the real language rather than the form. The aim of the current article is to present the reasons for using online materials in teaching listening skills and more importantly to suggest how to design listening tasks using online materials. 2. Content 2.1. Reasons for using online materials in teaching listening skills The need for and the usefulness of authentic materials on webs have been increasingly acknowledged. Martinez 2002 suggests a list of advantages of authentic materials used in language teaching in general and listening skills in particular. - Students are exposed to real discourse as in videos of interview with famous people where intermediate students listen for the general idea. - Authentic materials keep students informed about what is happening in the world so they have an intrinsic educational value. 37 Nguyen Thi Huong Lan - As language change is reflected in the materials so that students and teachers can keep abreast of such changes. - Teachers can have students practice some of the micro-skills of listening e.g. basically students listen to news reports and they are asked to identify the