Listening is the crucial in teaching and learning process. It can help students to develop the other language skills in daily life. Through listening, the students must discriminate between sounds, understand vocabulary and grammatical structures. In short, the students understand the accent of speaker or pronunciations and grasp the meaning of the speaker.
In listening activity, the learners comprehend the messages being listened. They must understand the message as it is presented, effective listening requires the ability to organize and remember what is presented.
VOA special English broadcast is an authentic material that can help the students to hear natural language or real speech from native speaker in real life. For the English teacher can download it in internet and choose the form of VOA (audio, video, audiovisual or multimedia) in accordance with their material.
There are some tips for beginners until advanced English learners:
Beginners Learners
For the beginners, you can use audio from our popular culture program, What’s Trending Today, or the news-related stories. Or try using a video from News Words, a series about terms in the news.
Before the activity, choose your audio or video. Also, development questions to test listener understanding.
Intermediate Learners
For intermediate, you can choose from a wide variety of English learning series, such as English in a Minute, English at the Movies, Words and Their Stories and Personal Technology.
Before the activity, choose the video or audio you’d like to use and prepare five questions about the material.
Advanced Learners
The VOA Learning English programs People in America and American Stories also come with online quizzes. It can be suitable for advanced learners. (In addition, American Stories also comes with a detailed, downloadable lesson plan each week).
You can watch a lot of video from VOA Learning English in here https://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish
And you can visit the website also https://learningenglish.voanews.com/
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