Problem: Lower intermediate students (aged 14-15) can't understand the listening tasks on the cassettes the teacher uses in class.

Problem: Lower intermediate students (aged 14-15) can't understand the listening tasks on the cassettes the teacher uses in class.
Nancy, Nadiyia, Ranata, and Suzie(secretary)
Possible Causes:
1. Many Accents
2. Background noise
3. Not understanding key words
4. Low proficiency
5. No interests to listen
6. Not familiar with the topic
7. Lack of listening practice experiences

Learner training needed:

Every listening materials are planned to be listened at least three times.
First time:
Before listen, teachers need to give students reasons for listening to motivate them to listen carefully to seek the answers. (1.How do you feel..?)
After the first listen, teachers give some tips for listening, such as,
1. Listening for the gist 2. Not listen word by word, but key words 3. Teachers can explain more explicit. (2.What do you know..?)

Listen again (the second time):
This time, teachers need to evaluate how well they are doing. Ask questions like, how well are you doing? (3.How well are you doing...?)
Then, check the feedback from students. Did you use the strategies mentioned before? How did these strategies work? Which way you prefer?(4. What do you need to do next...? 5. How do you prefer to learn..? Teachers can break the step to analysis the listening materials to help students to understand how exactly use the strategies in the listening. This is aim to emphasize how to use strategies and help students to find their own ways to get the answer and check whether they need to build up your self-confidence.( 6. Do you need to build up your self-confidence..?)

Third time:
Teachers can try different tasks to check whether students master the materials in the listening, such as using “gap filling” test or “multiple choices” to check
(7. How do you organise..?)
No. of sessions: at least 3 times a week – the main reason is to give more practice

Integrated?: Yes
Special sessions?: No.