Listening is the absorption of the meanings of words and sentences by
the brain. Listening leads to the understanding of facts and ideas. But
listening takes attention, or sticking to the task at hand in spite of
distractions. It requires concentration, which is the focusing of your
thoughts upon one particular problem. A person who incorporates
listening with concentration is actively listening. Active listening is a
method of responding to another that encourages communication.
In addition, the listeners should have an effective way to comprehend what
the speaker talking about. Therefore, in teaching listening the teacher
should provide skills for the students about how to do an effective
listening. However, based on the teacher’s experience, the teacher found
some conditions. First, the students look at the speaker but don't
listen. They expect to get the material from the textbook later. Then,
they think it is too difficult to follow the speaker's complicated ideas
and logic.A poor listener wants entertainment, not education. And then,
they feel boring when the teacher ask them to listen native speaker
speak in audio (teacher material). A poor listener daydreams and falls
behind.
Listening is a very important skill, especially for
teacher. Many teacher tend to talk too much during a tutorial session.
This defeats the purpose of tutoring, which is to allow students to
learn by discussion. Rather than turning the session into a
mini-lecture, teacher must actively listen and encourage their students
to become active learners. Giving a student your full attention is
sometimes difficult because you start to run out of time, or you find
yourself thinking about your next question; however, the time you spend
actively listening to your student will result in a quality tutoring
session.
Students who are active listeners use new information
more productively. They are better equipped to access their prior
knowledge, which allows them to make connections with new information.
It also enables them to decide how to use this information. By
activating their schema, they have a framework for understanding new
content and whether or not the content is relevant. As a result, they
are much better at sifting through all of the information they receive
and determining what the main points are and what are extraneous
details.
So the teacher have to provide effective strategy. There
are some strategies that make students understand about the listening
material. First, Listening for gist means students listen in order to
understand the main idea of the text. Second, Listening for specific
information the students want to find out specific details, for example
key words. And the last Listening for detailed understanding, the
student want to understand all the information the text provides.