When a Muslim baby comes to the world, it is necessary for
her to listen to adhan. This event can be considered as a proof to how
important listening is. Allah S.W.T has given fortunate human beings the
ability to hear for them to use it wisely as taking care of this amanah is an act of 'ibadah.
From the task give, we have discovered that when dealing
with human to human conversation, our culture has set listening secondary after
talking. Those who are vocal and speak impressively always get the name. Good
listeners on the other hand, are easily forgotten. This is certainly not
healthy as it takes two to tango. A society without listeners will lead to the
collapse of its nation when everybody only wants to listen to themselves, their
own point of views of life and others' don't matter.
Hence our decision to prepare a lesson plan on listening
skill, as we find that listening is as important as speaking. The significant
lesson we learn from this task is that technology has opened up a whole wide
area of opportunity to improve our listening skills, rather than using the
conventional method of listening to a recoded tape and write down our answers
on a given worksheet.
With the invention of voice-/video-chatting (such as Windows Live and Skype), students are
able to improve their listening skills by communicating through voice-/video-chatting,
as what we have prepared for our lesson plan. When we prepared this task, we
found that there are so (numerous!) many websites on improving grammar,
writing skills, and reading skills. Little did we know that there are also a
number of websites that cater to improving one’s listening or speaking skills
by communication to another leaner or teacher and this opens up students to the
concept of authentic language. This gives the opportunity for students to
possibly native English speakers or perhaps other dialects of English,
especially those of non-native speakers.
This concludes that technology has brought boundaries closer
and gives chances to people who are do not have the opportunity to be exposed
to other versions of authentic English language than the one they are
surrounded by.
Prepared by: Illya Shahirah
Prepared by: Illya Shahirah