Some experience teaching students to learn listening skills in grade 6 at Hoang Long secondary school

INDEX
 Contents
 Pages
1. INTRODUCTION
2
1.1. Reason for choosing topic
2
1.2. General purposes
2
1.3. Object research
2
1.4. Method – vocational – technical
3
2. THE CONTENT
5
2.1. Basic for agument of the experience
5
2.2. Actual situation
5
2.3. Experience initiative or solution to solve the problem
6
3. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
19
3.1. Conclution
19
3.2. Recommendations
19
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Reason for choosing topic
 English pilot books are being taught from grade 6 to grade 9 at some secondary schools. As an English language teacher at Hoang Long secondary school and I always wonder how to help students reach English easily through four basic skills: Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing. But there is a skill always that causes students the most troubled, which is Listening. There are many students who are very good at the application of grammar exercises, but the English listening ability is very bad. What should teachers do to help students overcome these difficulties? For English communication will be English, so communicating with friends overseas will students listen to understand foreign friends what they are saying, which will help them more boldly confident in communicating in English.
The goal of English is to establish and develop in student’s the basics of English is the intellectual property necessary to further education or go into academic life and their work in all aspects of work and their life. As English textbooks in junior high school from grades 6 to 9 are compiled in the same building perspective program. This is the perspective point (Thematic Approach) and enhances the learning method of proactive students.
 All the 4 skills: Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing are interested, focused and coordinated with the exercises and classroom activities.
 One of four skills English language learners in general, and secondary students in particular courses, often certain difficulties in the process of learning English listening skills.
1.2. General purposes
 In fact, to get good listening skills, the English language learners need to have a process of regular exercise daily, weekly and monthly with the content and form of different technologies. Teaching Listening and learning skills in English, though not new, but it is a very difficult skill for both teachers and students at the junior high school level. That's the reason why the actual situation like this, I figure research ideas into this subject partly in the hope of helping the English teachers and students gradually overcome the difficulties to carry out implementation of teaching and learning in English Listening carefully horizontal effective better help students learn English more positively, more proactively in acquiring, perceiving knowledge of the lesson. This is also the reason and purpose that I chose this topic.
1.3. Object research
- The purpose of foreign language teaching is not to give students knowledge of the language, the main purpose of the training is to teach students English communication skills in English daily communication of school. The good students are represented by skills: Listening - Speaking – Reading – Writing. which English Listening skills of students is formed through the process of learning, language training in English language environment. Besides learning English at school, in class, the students also have to learn, self-discipline skills play through the forms, methods and content to hear different English.
More specifically, English Listening skill is the ability to use language knowledge and listening comprehension purposes conversations daily communication in English.
- Fundamental factors directly impact the effectiveness of teaching information technology.
* To the teacher
 - With innovative teaching methods, teachers play a positive role in directing and controling students in active learning at school.
- To conduct a successful lesson Listening effectively, the teachers need to make the following basic elements well:
+ Choosing and using flexible techniques to teach Listening skill to suit each lesson content with the students.
+ Organization, good classroom control and distribution reasonable time.
+ Fluency means, the teaching aids for teaching Listening to serve in English.
+ Research, creative, self- made ​​and appropriate teaching aids, well serve Listening skills lesson.
+ Teachers must inspire, passionate and they must be charismatic to attract and activate students eager to learn in English.
* To the students
- The relationship between teaching and learning, the teacher is the organizer, controller. As students occupy themselves with the knowledge of the actions, the actions of his own intellect under control teacher’s organizations.
- Listen to English lesson successfully and effectively, the students should also have the necessary skills in listening comprehension, conversations, and communicate with each other on topics of practical life and daily work in English.
1.4. Method - vocational - technical (Listening techniques)
- Teaching Listening is regulated by the listening content. Other words, the listening content dominates the selection, use, flexible coordination of teaching methods, teaching techniques.Every technical teaching in accordance with a specific form of lessons (teaching grammar, teaching speaking, teaching,
writing, teaching listening .. ) 
- Using both intensive listening and extensive listening effectively in each period to help students improve listening skill
* Equipment, teaching aids for teaching skills to serve listening
 - The use of pictorial devices very good support and positive for Foreign Language teaching and learning in general and English in particular subjects, this work is considered to be an important mean, represents the majority of main content of the lesson. During all lessons unit of a new textbook program, the content of Listening recorded in cassettes or CD , VCD , DVD and just in textbook exercises ear training. If they want to have good skill to do listening exercises, the learners must listen to the lesson content in the tape drive. Moreover, teaching equipment is also active in media innovation which will be innovative teaching methods, high efficiency, motivation and learning caused much excitement for students learning English in the process.
* The equipment needed for the course:
+ Transceivers cassettes.
+ Recorders readings and listening textbook.
+ Pictorial content and didactic lesson.
+ Computers, Computer speaker.
+ The illustrations, equipment, utensils because teachers do .....
2.THE CONTENT
 2.1. Basis for agument of the experience 
* Good points
 - Although there are objective conditions and subjective influences directly in the teaching process, but I have tried to find ways to overcome, overcoming the difficulties ahead, gradually improve the quality of teaching and learning English in school. Especially further improve the efficiency of teaching English Listening skills to meet the goals and objectives of teaching English at the junior high schools according to the textbook program innovation Department of Education and Training.
* To the teacher
- I myself initially had relatively good access methods, english teaching techniques. Especially the skills and techniques specific to teaching English Listening.
- I myself have been familiar with the initiative and how to organize a successful lesson Listen and high efficiency.
- Coordinate fine and quite flexible techniques taught English.
- I did research and made a lot of creative teaching materials appropriate for each lesson content of Listening. Therefore, I myself have heard so many lessons lively, charismatic high with students and have achieved high results in teaching English.. The majority of some students did better exam forms, especially English Listening Comprehension section. 
- Possible to use, works well equipped modern teaching, to serve process in English Listening as video tapes, cassette machines, video recorders, computers.....
* To the students
- The majority of the students have become familiar with English Listening lesson 
- Many students already hear and recognize the voice, the voice of native speakers 
- Most students have heard all sounds simple content, to the extent not too difficult and I was able to implement the requirements, the training of teachers to apply after hearing the content in tapes.
- A number of students were formed, trained and gained skills and techniques in the process of learning, practice English listening skills.
 2.2. Actual situation
- These drawbacks and shortcomings:
* Toward teacher
- Still some teachers have difficulty in performing tasks, vocational-technical,it is still difficult in the selection of technical vocational training to suit each lesson content, to suit each pupils and each stage of the listening lesson.
- A few teachers untapped or not fully utilized proficient use of teaching aids, lesson Listen to serve in English.
* Toward students
 - Motor learning, practice English listening skills of students is limited.
 - Many students have few opportunities to hear English, they have very little chance of access to the mass media modern, advanced to the last bared that can understand English.
 - Some students in school longer afraid, yet strong in listening and speaking in English, they are also afraid of making mistakes in the process heard English.
- Train new skills and technology was difficult for students, especially for students 6 grades.
* Teaching aids
- Teaching aids for teaching serves Listening skills are very much lacking, not many illustrations, and English recordings.
* Investigators specifically
 - During more than 18 years of teaching English in secondary school, I myself have been assigned to school teaching English across the school grades 6. With the knowledge, experience in those years. I have had valuable experiences in the process draws on the teaching and learning of all grades many students . I have driven themselves at the beginning of the school year a plan and teaching methods specific, detailed lesson plans in the classroom to be able to complete all investigations, surveys, mastery learning situation of students in their respective classes. Through investigation, I realized I understand that most uncertain vocabulary, English vocabulary was not large, English Listening skills are limited. 
Survey results as follows: (from 10/09/2017)
Class
Students
Excellent
Good
Medium
Weak
Poor
No
%
No
%
No
%
No
%
No
%
6B
26
3
11.5
5
19.2
11
42.4
6
23.1
1
3.8
 6A
28
2
7.1
7
25
10
35.8
7
25
2
7.1
2.3. Experience initiative or solutions to solve the problem
- Prepare plans for an English listening lesson.
* To the teacher
- Listen to an English lesson is good and successful, teachers need to be groomed, and well done the following steps:
+ Look at the content of the information taught in textbooks, teachers' books, reference books .... to make an important basis to help teachers plan the steps of her teaching a lesson to Play.
+ Careful study of textbooks, teachers' books, reference books will help teachers organize, control information in English Listening in the right center of gravity of the lectures. Towards making teachers assigned time for step dad teaching, learning activities scientifically and logically.
+ Research purpose and requirements of the lesson:
- The purpose of the lesson and ask the ultimate destination where both teachers and students need to achieve the following lessons learned.
- For Advanced Listening skills are taught in English, the common purpose and requirements of the Listening lesson is to help students develop good practice and skills: Listening (Listen) - Speaking (Talking) - Reading (Reading) - Writing (Writing). During this process, the teaching and learning of teachers and students to the most special emphasis listening skills. After you finish listening, students can listen to understand the main content, the best of all the listening and done some homework requirements or language.
+ Good choice and flexibility to coordinate the technical Listening (Listening Techniques) a scientific and rational way. Choosing hear teaching techniques must be determined on the basis of content, hear the request of the lessons that characteristics and capabilities of students English classes there, and the stages in the process of teaching listening includes 3 phases: Phase heard before (pre - listening), while listening phase (while - Listening), and the exercise period (Post - listening). During each phase of the lesson in English listening skills they have the technical skills to teach listening appropriate to each time period.
- Teachers need to design carefully the prepared lesson plans class scientific and reasonable.
- Teachers need a clear plan of activities for teaching and active learning activities of students, time distribution, and a science fair for the learning activity, the requirements of each exercise, the answers of each student ...
- Exchange and discussion of teaching methods will be used in lessons.
Of more effective teaching English skills, listening skills will be more successful and achieve greater efficiency if the plans are given teaching exchange and discussion with colleagues before teaching. Doing this not only gives the more positive results but also help to teach listening skills as well
as speaking - Reading - Writing skills also achieved many positive results.
*To the students
- Teachers ask students to prepare for upcoming classes by:
+ Teachers suggest the system of questions for upcoming lessons they learned so that students have time to prepare lessons, learn, study materials related to the upcoming lessons.
+ Ask students to do some exercises related to lesson content to hear that lesson the other skills necessary to bring positive results likewise.
+ To encourage and motivate students confident, creative initiative raised many questions, many issues related to the lesson.
b. Perform better teaching listening process
- For a lesson in grammar or vocabulary, usually in the course of the lesson is composed of 3 phases Presentation - Practice – Production. And the process of a lesson in English Listening skills also include 3 phase Pre - Listening section, while – Listening, post - Listening. This teaching process not only helps students master the lessons, but also help them to use good communication skills in English daily, in the talk about life and work and study. But the main problem is to identify teachers clearly, definitely, precise goals and requirements of each specific lesson to hear from that orientation for school students perform well the task of the central lessons of the next stage.
* Pre – Listening 
 (True / False Prediction , Open Prediction , Ordering , Pre - questions)
- This is the first stage of orientation to help students think about the subject or situation or content before students to listen.
- The students in class had not seen the text before or done any preparation for listening. Here you see the teaching goals in this pre-listening phase:
+ To activate the students' schema and vocabulary related to the topic.
+ To form some preliminary assumptions about the content of the text.
+ To pose some questions that could provide them with a reason for listening. For example, I asked "do you think the Pope comes to the US often?" and the students said that they didn't know, so I said "Ok, we will see".
 + Notice here how the teacher uses the chalkboard to write basic vocabulary and ideas given by the students. Use of the board provides visual reinforcement for ideas and vocabulary items presented by the students during all phases of listening
+ Notice also how the teacher asked a student to correct her pronunciation of the word. After the student finished her sentence, the teacher pointed to his throat indicating the need for the student to pronounce the word correctly. The student repeated the word twice and was able to pronounce it correctly on her third try. Attention to pronunciation should be constant in class activities and can usually be done through self correction.
+ Notice also the phrases the teacher uses to provide positive reinforcement to students. Such reinforcement is important to build self confidence in all class activities but especially when doing listening activities.
+ Finally teachers make ​​it clear to students that they will be heard many times, and guidance requirements, specific tasks for the students to hear
( Choose the right / wrong answer ... ) .
Example : UNIT 1: MY NEW SCHOOL
Period 6: Skills 2 
Task 1
Before listening:
- Ask students to:
+ read the questions carefully
+ decide what information you are listening for
+ think of the words that you might hear
+ listen for important information only. 
* Pre- listening (3’)
 * Set the sence: Susie is a student at PLC Sydney
+ Teaching vocab:
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocab (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vacab.
- Checking vocab: Slap the board
- Ask ss to refer back to the reading : PLC sydney
- Introduce Susie Brewer – a student at PLC Sydney .
* While – listening
- Play the recording only the first time
Ask ss to look at the book and listen carefully.
- Play the recording again and allow ss to choose the correct answers as they listen .
- Ss can share their answers before listening to the recording a final time to check .
- Correct their mistakes if nesessary .
Teacher remarks and gives the answer key 
Key 
1. A , 2. A , 3. B , 4. B , 5. A 
* Post – Listening
(Role play, recall the story, write it up, Further practice ...)
- This is the final stage of the process of teaching English listening skills. During this period students have more opportunities to practice after listening, they can apply the knowledge, language skills have been trained stage set "while - Listening" on the actual communicative situations, have the same meaning in the classroom immediately upon hearing, students need to do some exercises such as reporting to the class or in team on the results after listening exercises, and other students listen to comments, or post treatment results of their work for you.
- Teachers need to incorporate good teaching methods, and other skills to help students develop, extended listening as: Recall the story, write it up, discussion ....
- Ask some ss to retell something about Susie 
- Begin with: “Susie is a students at PLC Sydney , She is eleven years old. She likes to study in a girls’ school. The teachers at her school are nice and very helpful...........”
- Then ask students to talk about their school.
- Begin with: “I am a students at Hoang Long secondary school, I’m......”
Example : UNIT3: MY FRIENDS
Period 20: Skills 2 
* Pre- listening 
Before listening, Ask students to look at the list and talk about what you should or shouldn’t do at Tet 
Ask students to look at the picture
Ask students to look at the table and tell: “What should you do at Tet ?
Ex : A. We should invite some friends to our home
 B. We should....................................................
Play games all night
Break things
Ask for lucky money
Buy some salt
Get up early
Invite friends home
Play music loudly
Bring home a black cat
Eat shrimps on New Year’s Day
Ask students to look at the table and tell: “What should not you do at Tet ?
We shouldn’t bring home a black cat
We shouldn’t....................................
Call some students to talk in class
Set the sence: “Mai and her mother are going shopping for Tet. Predict what they will buy and tick.”
* While – listening
Turn on the radio twice, ask students to listen and tick.
 Items 
Answer
peach blossoms 
banh chung
new clo