TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Unit 7: Listening

As we know, Listening is one of the four English skills. In this case, listening is as receptive skill as Reading. However, this skill is connected to speaking skills. Besides, listening supports meaningful sounds in context in which English learners can hear different situations and adapt them to their knowledge of the world.

For that reason, we could learn many about this skill because we noticed that listening skills has the same sub skills like reading. Besides, this receptive skill is mostly applied to spoken language according to the process of using listening and the features that it provided to us in our learning and knowledge acquired. Additionally, we focused our learning in the text types of listening applied in the tone of voice, emotions and feelings of the speakers at the moment of developing this skill. Moreover, the sub skills which we learned were the same as reading because, we could understand more about listening for gist and global understanding to get the main idea of the context employed. Also, we developed listening for detail to find out specific information. In addition, we were able listen to infer the attitude of the speakers to find information that is not explicit from the text. Finally, we managed how to identify functions of the texts and how these were applied appropriately by the speakers.

To conclude, we have got to admit that this skill is very challenging for us but we will get on with improving the knowledge of this skill because we expect as teachers to get involved so long listening in teaching for our students creating interaction partners to become a more social environment in the class. Given that, this skill is as relevant as the other skills in any language.  Making to hear conversations, dialogs, interviews according to topics of interest of the students.   

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