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UDC 81-11
HOW TO CHOOSE EXERCISES FOR
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Zhanibekova I.Z.
Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan University
In the educational process, listening acts as a goal and means. As a tool, it can be
used as:
1. Ways to organize the educational process.
2. The method of introducing language material orally.
3. Means of teaching other types of speech activity.
4. Means of control and consolidation of acquired knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Listening is a receptive activity, and mastering sensory activities is a prerequisite
for the development of productive skills and, first of all, speaking.
Listening in the lesson's structure can occur at the beginning, central part, and final
stage. The place of hearing in the form of the study will, first of all, depend on the goal
that the teacher has set for himself and the students.
If the lesson's goal is the formation of grammatical skills, authentic speech can be
a way of recognizing the text, for example, using the verb tense studied in this lesson.
With the linguistic goal of the lesson, authentic speech helps to master and consolidate
new vocabulary on the topic of the class. With the development of phonetic skills,
attention is drawn to the recognition by students of the intonation pattern of a phrase to
mastering the technique of pronouncing foreign sounds in words, phrases, and sentences.
This may be a small text passage containing a small number of unfamiliar words and used
at the stage of updating students' knowledge in a lesson in teaching reading; it may be a
sample dialogue in a study in teaching dialogical speech. This may be a song when
introducing new lexical units, or it may be the main stage of the listening lesson, where
the information in the text is key.
Listening is used to introduce students to a new language or speech material.
Organizing an acquaintance with new material means showing students its meaning, form,
and use. So, when introducing children to new vocabulary, to master the state, it is
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necessary for students to perceive it repeatedly; to understand the meaning, you can use a
non-translational method of revealing the purpose and only, if necessary, a translation;
situations are needed to illustrate the use of a new word. Familiarization begins with the
perception of the whole, i.e., the statement - a speech unit correlated with the situation.
Thus, it goes from the whole to the particular, from the account to a single word, and from
it to the sound (if it is new).
When working with audio materials, the ability of students to simultaneously work
on several speech exercises is developed.
The correct relationship of different types of speech is of certain importance in
teaching foreign language speech.
Consider the interaction of the ability to listen to foreign speech with the ability to
speak, read and write in a foreign language.
Listening and speaking.
Listening comprehension is closely related to speaking - the expression of thoughts
by means of the language being studied. Chatting can be a reaction to someone else's
speech.
Listening to foreign speech and speaking are interrelated in the educational process:
listening can serve as the basis for saying; in turn, the quality of understanding of the
listened material is usually controlled by answering questions about the content of the
listened-to or by retelling it.
Thus, listening prepares for speaking; speaking helps the formation of listening
comprehension.
I was listening and reading.
There is an interaction between listening and reading. Listening tasks are usually
given in printed form, so some of the information necessary for listening, that is, for
understanding the text, can be extracted from the printed task.
Listening and writing.
Very often, the answers to the listening task must be given in writing. Therefore,
these activities are also interconnected.
The question often arises - when should you start introducing authentic texts into
lesson activities?
In modern conditions, teaching a foreign language begins from the second grade,
that is, from the initial stage of education. The initial step in secondary school is the period
of learning a foreign language, which allows laying the foundations of communicative
competence, necessary and sufficient for further development and improvement while
studying this subject. A sufficiently long period is required to lay the foundations of
communicative competence because students need to familiarize themselves with the
language being investigated as a means of communication from the first steps. This means
that they must learn to understand foreign speech by ear (listening), to express their
thoughts using language (speaking), to read, i.e., understand a foreign text read to oneself,
and write, i.e., learn to use the graphics and spelling of a foreign language when
performing written tasks, or be able to express your thoughts in writing.
Being closely related to other types of speech activity, listening plays an important
role in learning a foreign language, especially in communicative-oriented learning.
Exercises when working with audio text can be divided into the following groups:
Pretext.
Exercises to do while listening
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post-text exercises.
Pre-text exercises are performed before listening, their purpose is to facilitate
subsequent listening.
These can be exercises to predict the topic of future listening, according to pictures,
diagrams, text titles.
The purpose of such exercises is to activate the vocabulary of students on the topic,
to update their socio-cultural knowledge and background knowledge on the topic of
listening. Removal of lexical and language difficulties as well as psychological stress
before listening.
The exercises performed while listening are most often aimed at extracting some
information of particular interest to us. Here, most often, students' ability to navigate in
the text is checked, to understand in which part of the text to look for information of
interest to them. Match printed information with spoken information. Quickly search for
the desired passage, since often such a task plan is given in such a way that some of the
information is omitted in printed form.
It can be filling in a table, filling in gaps in the text.
The exercises performed after listening are often of a controlling nature. These are
often answers to questions. Exercises like true/false. These exercises test the degree of
understanding by students of the information contained in the text, the degree of
penetration into the general content or details. As well as an exercise in expressing your
attitude to what you heard.
It is very important, when starting to work on an audio text, to create a situation of
success, to offer them a task that they can definitely complete. Too difficult texts can cause
disappointment for students, deprive them of faith in success. Too light audio texts are
also undesirable. The absence of a moment of overcoming difficulties makes the work
uninteresting and unattractive, it cannot be a developing factor in the process of learning
a foreign language.
It is necessary to immediately determine the purpose of listening and say that the
main task is not to fully understand the entire text, but only to extract the information of
interest to the teacher.
For example: name the pieces of furniture that you heard when the task is
formulated in such a way that students are not afraid to complete the task to the end, and
this is very important, as they learn to listen to the recording from beginning to end.
Further tasks should be complicated. In order to extract the necessary information,
it is always necessary to clearly explain that the main information is always contained in
the words that are stressed in the sentence, therefore, great attention should be paid to the
search for stressed words.
To do this, you can offer students to listen to individual sentences or break the
already listened text into sentences and offer to identify stressed words. This work usually
also does not cause any difficulties, students can easily cope with this type of task, which
helps to improve students' listening skills.
At the next stage, you can enter more complex exercises on audio texts. These are
exercises with extracting more accurate information and identifying details such as
answering specific questions, filling in gaps in sentences where information is missing
that the student needs to hear and then write down.
When working on a text, much attention is paid to pre-text exercises. If there are
none in the textbook, then they need to be prepared and introduced by yourself. Before
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presenting the text to students, the teacher must listen to it himself and identify the most
difficult places to understand.
Words or phrases that the teacher thinks will be difficult to understand should be
written on the board. The meanings of some can be written down, while the meanings of
others can be asked to guess. Words and phrases must be spoken by yourself and several
times so that they can hear them in slow motion and understand their phonetic structure.
Another important preparatory exercise is communicating information about the
upcoming audition - whether it will be an interview, or a TV show, or a weather forecast.
In addition, it is imperative to communicate the tasks of listening - listen and answer
questions, listen and fill in the gaps, etc.
Be sure to give time to familiarize yourself with the printed task, if it is in the
textbook or provided by the teacher on a separate sheet. It is imperative to check whether
the students understood the task (what is required of them, vocabulary), be sure to remove
the difficulties if they are revealed.
A very important detail is the length of the text. If the text sounds for more than one
minute, then there is a possibility that students will not understand it completely, because
usually the initial part of the text is best understood, and towards the end, attention is
scattered and they do not have time to understand the content of the text as a whole.
Therefore, it is necessary to start working by ear with small texts based on lexical material
that students have a good command of.
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