Which of the following is MOST useful when you have students who have problems with listening texts?

Question

1. Pre-teach potentially difficult vocabulary.
2. Play the listening extract as many as needed for all students to understand.
3. Avoid listening texts and work on other skills instead.
4. Play the listening text at half speed.

Answer 1

Hello Zie,

It really depends on the individual student themselves. Different teaching techniques (including and in addition to those listed above) work and don't work for different students when it comes to learning and teaching most effectively in terms of getting through to your pupils the deepest and most successfully accordingly. Sometimes trial and error is the ultimate option for teachers when it comes to determining which instructional strategies prove to be the most useful for which student(s) (who in this case, have problems with listening texts) along the way.

Good luck to you and your fellow educators with implementing one or more of the above teaching methodologies in the most masterful manner, long-term!