2. BARRIERS AFFECTING LISTENING
1. Linguistic
2. Use of hard words/Registers
3. Noisy environment
4. Physiological
5. Psychological
6. Negative attitude
3. LISTENING PROCESS
1. Listening is hearing and perceiving a message
2. It is a mental function
3. It is receptive skill but it is an active process
4. Listening skills also designated as Aural–Oral skill
5. SUB SKILL
1. Predicting what the speaker’s main theme word and
guessing the word he would use next.
2. Understanding the collocation of words (adjective, adverbs
,etc).
3. Grasping the mood and import of the speaker his attitude
and the meaning implied by stress, intonation, etc.
4. Understanding how the speaker develops his idea logically
and sequentially and his stylistics.
5. Inferring and selecting information of interest to the listener.
6.
7. PRE –LISTENING
The learner’s role is not significant, whereas the teacher has
to think and plan for the speaking-listening activities in the
class
8. ON-LISTENING
The teacher should arouse interest in the learners and
motivate them to listen to something very interesting and
useful to them.
9. POST-LISTENING
It follow up tasks can be given with a variety of materials to
suit the learner’s home conditions and intellectual and
linguistic levels.
10. TYPES OF LISTENING SKILL
1. Extensive listening
It is enjoyment in general without any immediate purpose.
2. Intensive listening
It is with more concentrated attention and is purposeful.
3. Focused listening
It means converging an attention to a specific purpose at a
time.
4. Casual listening
Not purposefully we may happen to listening a news, or an
announcement.
11. TECHNIQUE FOR DEVELOPING
LISTENING SKILL
1. Phoneme recognition test
2. Responding to stress and intonation
3. Dictation
4. Simulation
5. Extended communication
6. Polite forms