TEACHING LISTENING WITH TECHNOLOGY

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The use of technology has become an increasingly popular method for enhancing the teaching of listening skills. By incorporating technology into the classroom, educators are able to provide a more interactive and engaging learning experience for students. With the help of various digital tools and resources, students are able to improve their listening abilities in an efficient and effective manner. This article will show that exploring the use of technology in enriching the instruction of listening skills. It underscores the diverse methods through which technology can be incorporated in language learning settings to enhance learners' comprehension capacities. Language teachers have long used technology to practice listening. From more traditional media such as analog audio and language labs to newer, Internet-based media, technology helps provide learners with authentic and realistic experiences that add excitement to the learning process and increase their contact with the language. The use of technology in the teaching of listening skills has proven to be an effective and efficient method for improving students' abilities. Keywords: Technology, enhance, teaching listening, language learning, technology, technology-based media, songs, audio books, podcasts, english video, cartoon, film. In our world today, technology has become a vital part of our life as it gives emphasis and clear understanding of how the world works today and how to cope up with the new and exciting society we have right now, especially in the school where most of the young and adult learners specifically students know more about the use of technology. Therefore, technology is widely used for its integration into the educational system. Listening is an important way of gaining access to information in the world today. Students can learn from listening resources on the internet by watching videos, listening to audio/podcasts, watching visuals, engaging in conversations, and reading transcripts/subtitles. To be a good teacher, you need to be a good listener. Active listening skills should be attended to, such as paying attention. People naturally tend to listen selectively because there is much to listen to and because of the possible external distractions like background noise and internal distractions like thinking about something else. Audio technology exposes students to a variety of speakers, voices, accents, situations, and rich cultural content, and it affords additional practice outside the classroom. It is easy to access and use at low or no cost. Not only does it save a teacher’s energy and voice, it offers a listener a certain degree of control over listening. Whereas the real-life voice is gone once the words have been spoken, a recording can be paused and replayed as many times as needed to understand its meaning. Audio technology can add interest to language instruction in several ways. For example, a longer passage can be divided into man-ageable portions by pausing at natural breaks. A teacher can also pause listening to 90 YOSH OLIMLAR ILMIY-AMALIY KONFERENSIYASI in-academy.uz/index.php/yo ask students to predict what they might hear next, write an answer, transcribe a sentence, or simply repeat after the speaker for pronunciation practice. Recording parts of an audio segment separately can lead to an information-gap activity in which groups of students each listen to a part of the text and try to reconstruct the whole story together. An abundance of listening materials available in many different formats makes it easy to ànd an appropriate text for any student population. Some technology-based activities primarily focus on listening and others naturally combine listening and speaking, but most of them extend to practice of other language skills and strategies. They are easy to sequence and integrate into any curriculum, can be adjusted depending on the level of language proàciency, and work well in or out of class. Following are the most popular and widely accepted teachers’ choices that can be used to teach listening comprehension in a variety of classroom settings:  songs  audio books  radio (e.g., Voice of America, BBC, CNN, and Spotlight Radio)  listening websites for ESOL (e.g., The English Listening Lounge, Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab, English Language Listening Online, Daily ELS)  video (e.g., commercials, documentaries, feature àlms, shows, and educational videos for native and nonnative speakers of English )  podcasts (e.g., OhMyNews, ESL Podcast, and Breaking News English)  academic lectures (e.g., ITunes University, Academic Earth, and MIT Open Courseware) Technology-based media make teaching and learning more accessible and easy, to begin with. Future teachers should integrate this technology-based since it creates collaboration and enhances the students' listening skills; it raises awareness about the technology, and students can learn a lot from it and be creative on their own. Furthermore, f