Introduction
Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.
This is not surprising when you consider that good listening skills can lead to: better customer satisfaction, greater productivity with fewer mistakes, increased sharing of information that in turn can lead to more creative and innovative work.
Good listening skills also have benefits in our personal lives and of course, listening is not the same as hearing. Listening needs constant exercise to grow stronger and to develop this skill, people learn in different ways so we can approach boosting a child’s listening through auditory, physical and visual learners.
Task
According with the students’ needs, they have problems to understand and to codify the teacher’s instructions; we have developed some activities for them to use them in the classroom to make it easier for the learners.
For the activities that we are going to perform, we have chosen a physical listening activity.
In the activity, we are going to put the students in teams of 4 and they are going to listen to music tapes and create movements to correspond to the lyrics.
Process
Steps for the activity:
* the students are going get in teams of four.
* each memeber of the group is going to participate so first one is going to take a little paper with a song written by the teacher.
* the student can not show the song to his/her classmates.
* the student can search for that song at internet with headphones and startcreating movements to correspond to the lyrics
* the student that is moving can not talk, only make moves so the rest of the team is guessing.
* the other 3 students of the team have to write parts of the song through the movements of the participant.
Evaluation
According with the performance of the students on this activity, we are going to evaluate the accuracy of the movements according with the song, if they do it correctly they will develop this skill, they are listening and performing at the same time, so this is very helpful for them to understand clear directions.
Conclusion
We have developed this activity on this web quest for the learners who are trying to increase their listening skills, this is helpful for them if they have any problems to understand directions.
We as a future teachers believe that learners have different ways to learn, some of them are more physical and others are auditory, we need to identify them and work with them according with their problems.
Credits
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Created by:
Ariel Alonso Garcia Rosales
Valeria Cruz Arrieta