Shadowing and Summarizing after Listening

I had carried out a school based research at SMK Bukit Bandaraya for two weeks. My interest was to find out whether the listening effectiveness of 2 Jujur students can be improved by the techniques I taught them. The two techniques were shadowing and summarizing. They meant to make them listen reflectively and effectively. They were taken from a strategy called "Deep Impact Storytelling" advocated by Brad Deacon and Tim Murphey.

The picture shows 2 Jujur students of SMK Bukit Bandaraya carrying out the shadowing technique. “Shadowing is simply repeating language after someone either silently or out loud. When students do this silently, as they listen to a story, they are hearing the story twice: once from the speaker and once in their internal voice. This makes it easier to reproduce the story later. Beginners often shadow completely, while intermediate and advanced learners tend to shadow selectively.”

“Before telling a story, they will retell the story to their partners by summarizing it in their own words. This gets them to pay more attention and to shadow more. Summarizing helps students to show each other what they understood and where they had difficulties. Working in pairs or small groups increases the opportunity for each partner to fill in the blanks where the other may be struggling. A low-level pair may also simply overhear others retelling the story and borrow bits from them. In addition to providing opportunities to check comprehension, summarizing also allows for expanding one’s views.”