AURAL/ORAL SKILLS BUILDING on listening and speaking

 

Adults worry about holding their jobs as technology outpaces the skills they worked so hard to learn. Such problems have generated libraries full of educational theories. But the problems persist.

The basic fact is that students fail to learn because no one ever taught them how to learn—that is, how to identify the barriers to learning and how to overcome those barriers.

L. Ron Hubbard,

In the 90s, the radio had been a useful resources in the teaching and learning listening and speaking at Gambian Lower Basic schools(LBS). Until 1994 when the television station was established and almost all households and some private schools listed it as a basic need.

However, the public schools still have a radio or two to teachers disposals but to a different utilization. The radios are use for just playing cassette with the Jolly Phonics songs recorded as a reinforcement in the teaching of the sound of the letters of the alphabet.

With the introduction of the  TV, the radio had become an obsolete teaching and learning resource in the Gambia especially.

The teaching of Drama, songs, poems etc. had also become very rare in schools. The absence of the above phenomena has created gaps between the skills in communication thus making it difficult for students to comprehend oral comprehension passages. The teaching and learning  activities of listening and speaking has been conducted in the abstract without the presence of any authentic material for assimilation to the children’s environment and that place  students in a dilemma of ‘’ to be or not to be.’’

The reading resources learned this week has created an uncountable acknowledgement of the numerous web-sites that will surely enhance and reinforce the future lessons on aural/oral skill building of learners.

As for the experience with creating my delicious page I can now manage all my teaching and learning resources and at the same time creating a backup for all my valuable information.  Delicious has come to save us from corrupted file and external drives.

Bravo to technology!!!

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