Listening Strategies

Question 1

What are listening strategies

Answer 1

The ways learners approach a listening task -LS
They can be taught of effective ways to approach a task

Buck(2001) identifies 2 types if listening strategies

• cognitive strategies
• meta cognitive strategies

Cognitive strategies
Comprehension processes - processing linguistic and non linguistic input

Storing and memory processes- storing linguistic and non linguistic input in short term and long term memory

Using and retrieval processes- accessing memory

Metacognitive strategies
Conscious and unconscious mental processes that take place while engaging in a task

Assessing the situation- assessing one’s knowledge, internal and external recourses and constraints of the situation before doing the task

Monitoring- determining the effectiveness of one own performance and others while doing the task

Self evaluating - determining the effective ness if one’s own and other’s performance after the task

Self testing - testing one’s self to determine the effectiveness of one’s language use

Question 2

Goh (1997,1998)

Answer 2

Planning - a strategy of implementing learning objectives or objectives for a task and deciding how to achieve them

Monitoring - checking the progress in the course of learning or while completing a task

Evaluating - determining the success of the outcome of an attempt to learn or completing a task