2. TOPIC:
“DO TEENAGERS OF THIRD LEVEL IN THE
PROFICIENCY PROGRAM AT ITSA INCREASE
THEIR SPEAKING ENGLISH ABILITY THROUGH
LISTENING ACTIVITIES?”
3. PROBLEM:
Students don´t have enough listening
actvities in order to improve their
pronunciation andfluency when they speak.
4. Gathering relevant data to analize the most
useful listening activities.
Surveys, classroom observations, interviews.
Methods: Analitic, and experimental
6. WHAT S
LISTENING?
It is receiving language through the
ears
we use our ears to receive individual
sounds.
we use our brain to convert these into
messages that mean something to us.
Predicting
Guessing
Reflection
Recognizing connectors
Recognizing discourse markers
Understanding intonation
Summarizing
Identifying relevant and irrelevant points
Understanding inferences
A
collage
of
skills
7. FOUR GENERAL TYPES OF
LISTENING
INACTIVE: not absorbing
SELECTIVE: hearing what you want
to hear
ACTIVE: hearing what is said
REFLECTIVE: the most complex
8. COGNITIVE STRATEGIES
Mental activities-
comprehending and storing
input
Associated with the
processing of linguistic and
nonlinguistic input
Associated with the storing
of linguistic and on linguistic
input
METACOGNITIVE
STRATEGIES
Conscious or
unconscious mental
activities
Assessing
Monitoring
Self-evaluating