Theme 10: Listening Flashcards
Listening comprehension
language skill where the receptor learns to process the input and information a messenger gives.
Micro-skills Used for Beginners
Students need to develop listening skills such as recognizing intonation patterns, distinguishing phonemes, identifying morphological endings, extracting details, understanding word order, detecting emotions, grasping main ideas, recognizing topics, associating words, categorizing concepts, and following directions.
Micro-skills Used for Intermediate
Students should develop the ability to recognize fast speech, identify stressed and reduced syllables, link words, extract details, analyze discourse to give suggestions, identify speakers and topics, evaluate themes and motives, distinguish main and supporting ideas, make inferences, recognize registers and tone of voice, notice missing grammar markers in colloquial speech, clarify meaning using knowledge of reduced forms, build and confirm expectations, predict, and listen to complete information.
Micro-skills Used for Advanced
Sentence-level features, cues, lexical and suprasegmental markers for definitions, identify specific points
of information, make predictions based on the introduction of the lecture, predict contents of the next section,
Characteristics of the language can make listening difficult to develop.
Clustering, redundancy, perofrmance variables, rate of delivery, interaction, stress, colloquial language.
6 types of classroom listening performance.
Reactive, responsive, selective, extensive, interactive
Reactive
Teachers ask students to repeat pieces of language. (pronunciaion)
Intensive
This kind of repetition is focused on specific elements of the language. (phonemes)
Responsive
Students listen to questions, and commands and respond to them.
Selective
scan long speeches looking for specific information.
Extensive
Students can be asked to find the main message or purpose
Interactive
This kind requires a mix of all the other 5 performances.
Ur, (1999) proposes 4 kinds of activities that can be used to teach
listening Micro-skills.
No overt response, short responses, longer responses, extended responses.
No overt response
They are limited to body language responses
Short responses
Obeying instructions, Ticking off items, Cloze, Ture/Flae, skimming & scannning
Longer responses
answering questions, paraphrasing and translating, summarizing, and long gap-filling.
Extended responses
Give extended answers
throughout writing or speaking activities. Problem-solving is well used as a resource in these activities.
