STEPS IN DEVELOPING AN ENGLISH E-CLASS BASED ON LISTENING
STEPS IN DEVELOPING AN ENGLISH E-CLASS BASED ON LISTENING

Summary/Abstract: There are many reasons for developing materials or even a whole course based on listening skill. First of all, people have different abilities for learning a foreign language and part of them rely on their aural capacity, so that we can suppose that it would be easier for them to acquire knowledge based on what they can hear. Secondly, the learner can be exposed to listening stimuli every day if the teacher knows how to find the way to guide him towards developing the skill. Listening to different people speaking, could help the student with his pronunciation. Thirdly, a course on line is more attractive if it is based on the listening with or without image. An audio visual material could be exploited in many ways by designing exercises for reading, listening, writing, grammar and speaking, according to the purpose of those implied in the educational process. Even if the teacher’s role is reduced to supervising and monitoring, the students can work at their pace and concentrate more on their individual needs. The teacher’s work can be seen in the way they develop the courses, the subjects, that in our case, may be used both for military and civilian students that are prepared for maritime environment. Such an e- learning-based class should interweave the traditional steps in designing a plan for a class with the modern visual and aural methods represented by e-learning. Pre-listening and post-listening exercises may be connected to other skills in order to enhance the vocabulary in a certain field.

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