A FEW KEY FEATURES OF DEVELOPING LISTENING AS AN INTEGRATED SKILL
A FEW KEY FEATURES OF DEVELOPING LISTENING AS AN INTEGRATED SKILL

Summary/Abstract: The present study approaches listening as an integrated skill and the issues its developing raises during teaching, as viewed by a number of methodology writers, among whom Penny Ur, Jeremy Harmer, Jim Scrivener, Adriana Vizental, and including a few personal opinions of the author. It insists on the differences in opinions between various methodologists, regarding the observing of either a single listening (as in real life) or at least two listenings (as in class work, for two different teaching purposes), and on the issue of the appropriate speech speed as a condition of intelligibility. It shows that, although in real life, speech speed is generally fast, for teaching purposes it should vary for the sake of the text accessibility to the teenage students.

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