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    Name: Joanna A. Obregon Beed 2A REACTION PAPER: Listening and Speaking Skills

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    This document is a reaction paper by Joanna A. Obregon from the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. The paper discusses the importance of developing listening and speaking skills in young learners. It identifies several classroom activities that teachers can use to help students improve their listening and speaking abilities, including playing listening games, using song activities, and games like Simon Says. The paper also discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills, such as reading aloud, debates, and using songs and music. Overall, the document emphasizes that listening and speaking are important 21st century skills that students can benefit from practicing.

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    This document is a reaction paper by Joanna A. Obregon from the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. The paper discusses the importance of developing listening and speaking skills in young learners. It identifies several classroom activities that teachers can use to help students improve their listening and speaking abilities, including playing listening games, using song activities, and games like Simon Says. The paper also discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills, such as reading aloud, debates, and using songs and music. Overall, the document emphasizes that listening and speaking are important 21st century skills that students can benefit from practicing.

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    This document is a reaction paper by Joanna A. Obregon from the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture. The paper discusses the importance of developing listening and speaking skills in young learners. It identifies several classroom activities that teachers can use to help students improve their listening and speaking abilities, including playing listening games, using song activities, and games like Simon Says. The paper also discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills, such as reading aloud, debates, and using songs and music. Overall, the document emphasizes that listening and speaking are important 21st century skills that students can benefit from practicing.

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    Republic of the Philippines

    CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF


    AGRICULTURE
    San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur 4418
    Website: www.cbsua.edu.ph
    Email Address: [email protected]
    Trunkline: (054) 871-5531-33 Local 101

    Name: JOANNA A. OBREGON BEED 2A


    REACTION PAPER: Listening and Speaking Skills

    A young learner to develop listening and speaking skills are bridge so that one can
    have effective communication skills, furthermore one of the requirement to be a 21st
    century learner. As said, listening is the neglected communication skill as few have had
    any formal instruction in listening unlike reading, writing and speaking. While speaking
    in a second language or foreign language has often been viewed as the most demanding
    and challenging of the four skills. In this case, how will a young learner build micro-
    skills? What is the role of a teacher to this challenge? Inside the classroom, learning with
    various strategies and activities can help them build and improve the said skills.

    Listening is a general purpose in most learning situations. You need to listen to


    get the instruction correctly, to obtain information, to understand and maximize
    comprehension. Among the activities suggested on the article, I choose some activities
    designed to complement listening skills, these are: Play Listening Games, "Listen and ..."
    Song Activities and Simon Says and Says. " Play listening games" are games that require
    student to listen, wait and then react or listen and make a decision are particularly good
    at targeting not only listening but processing skills too. It is same as " Listen and ..." Song
    Activities as they need to listen and react to what they hear; they need to point, move,
    perform actions depending on what songs are playing. It also goes the same with
    "Simon Says and Says Activities" as they need to follow instructions given first before
    performing the dictated direction. All of these activities requires not just only to listen
    but also a lot of body movements, voice and memory skills. It differs from each other in
    a way that "play listening games" are obviously all about games like hurrah-boo,
    telephone games, thumbs up thumbs down and such while "listen and ... Song activities
    are incorporated by various songs and music like "head, shoulders, knees and toes.
    Simon Says and Says on the other hand, challenge students by giving them multi-step
    directions. Among these three activities, "Play listening games" is my favorite listening
    activities because student like exciting and fun learning and I can create my own games
    activities if possible.

    Teaching speaking skills differ from teaching listening as it requires more students
    participation and let young learners talk. Reading tag, debate and using songs and music
    are classroom activities suited to help student develop speaking skills. Reading tag is an
    strategies to let the student read out loud together, such as reading clearly and using
    emotion. As a teacher, you can scaffold or model good reading skills then "tag" or
    encourage students to read with feelings with their classmates. For the debate, the
    topic should be base on what level of capabilities they can make an argument and have
    students state their opinions. In this way, they develop also logical and sound opinion
    before voicing out what in their head. Lastly, using songs and music like Jazz chants is
    usually done for final performance. The learners practice the rhythm, stress and
    intonation of natural conversation in American English. In addition, making them sing
    can improve students' musical ability. These three activities are group work and
    collaborative learning by positive interdependence with teamwork and interaction to
    others.

    Clearly, listening and speaking are skills that the student can all benefit from
    improving. I believe that a good speaker should be a good listener. Both speaker and
    listener have a positive function to perform and have major impact on job effectiveness
    in the future, in this way as early as we can, young learners should build this important
    skills with the help of the appropriate strategies and activities of a teacher inside the
    classroom.

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