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B. Learners‘ interest and the intrinsic interest of the topic
Teachers have to think how easy it is to create interest in the topic at a pre-
listening stage and how familiar the topic is to the students. Learner‘s interest is
another important factor that should be taken into consideration when selecting
authentic listening materials. An applied linguist once said that it‘s no good trying to
get your students fascinated by a text on the latest art movies if they are all fans of
action films. You might as well save your time and energy and just use the textbook.
So it‘s necessary for teachers to know students‘ likes and dislikes on listening
materials and it‘s wise for them to make a survey among students before the
selection. For example, the teacher gives each student a form like the following one,
and asks them to fill it, and then makes a summary of the survey. In this way, the
selected materials may be accepted by most of the students and successful listening
teaching may achieve.
C. Cultural appropriateness
If there is any cultural specific content in the recording,, the teachers should
consider whether they can reduce its comprehensibility to the listeners from other
cultural backgrounds or whether it can potentially cause cultural offence.
D. Cognitive demands
How complex are the ideas in the recording? How dense are they? How
complex are the relationships between the ideas? How complex is the overall
argument structure
E. Exploitability
Can you design any learning tasks based on the text to ensure the learners‘
comprehension? There are other factors need to be considered: the information
density, the accent, the speed of the speaker, the relevance of the listening material to
the syllabus and the students etc.
It is the advantages that attract us to accept and
use authentic materials in foreign language classroom, but when using them, it‘s
inevitable that we‘ll face some problems. For most students, the challenges are that
authentic materials may be ―too culturally based‖ and often contain ―difficult
language, unneeded vocabulary items and complex language structures [4]. So
students are required to have sufficient cultural background knowledge and a large
amount of vocabulary and a good command of grammar knowledge. Therefore,
lower-level students are easily de-motivated when confronted with this kind of
materials. Authentic materials often create problems to teachers too. Since the
language of authentic listening materials is difficult, teachers need to do special
preparation before class that is often time consuming. These disadvantages can be
avoided in selecting and lesson planning. Actually if used appropriately, the
disadvantages can be turned into advantages.
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