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01.01.2016
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Research Articles
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Developing Integrated Speaking and Listening Skills through Silent Viewing and Dubbing – An Experiment
K.R. Athista
Dept. of English, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India
Keywords: Silent viewing, Dubbing, Mute Video Watching, Integrating listening and speaking
Abstract
Listening is often ignored in the language classrooms with the assumption that students acquire the organised skill automatically while listening to the teachers’ use of the target language. Listening is a complex process that requires phonological, semantic, syntactical discourse, and pragmatic knowledge of the language as well as understanding the context and nonverbal communication. The aim of this paper is to show how speaking and listening skills could be imparted to learners through silent viewing of videos and dubbing activities. The steps followed in the integration of listening and speaking are motivation, mute video watching, delivering ideas, input for right delivery of ideas, if necessary, and integrating listening and speaking skills. The experiments throw a challenge for the learners to improve their guess work and to come out with language production
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