ENglish listening comprehension

1. Teaching Listening
Comprehension
1. Types of Spoken Language
2. What Makes Listening Difficult?
3. Micro-skills of Listening Comprehension
4. Types of Classroom Listening Performance
5. Principles for Designing Listening Techniques
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2. Types of Spoken Language
Monologue Dialogue
Planned Unplanned Interpersonal Transactional
Unfamiliar
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Familiar
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3. What Makes Listening Difficult?
1. Clustering
2. Redundancy
3. Reduced forms
4. Performance variables
5. Colloquial language
6. Rate of delivery
7. Stress, rhythm, and intonation
8. Interaction
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4. Micro-skills of Listening Comprehension (1)
1. Retain chunks of language of different lengths in short-term memory.
2. Discriminate among the distinctive sounds of English.
3. Recognize English stress patterns, words in stressed and unstressed
positions, rhythmic structure, intonational contours, and their role in
signaling information.
4. Recognize reduced forms of words.
5. Distinguish word boundaries, recognize a core of words, and interpret
word order patterns and their significance.
6. Process speech at different rates of delivery.
7. Process speech containing pauses, errors, corrections, and other
performance variables.
8. Recognize grammatical word classes (nouns, verbs, etc.), systems (e.g.,
tense, agreement, pluralization), patterns, rules, and elliptical forms
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5. Micro-skills of Listening Comprehension (2)
9. Detect sentence constituents and distinguish between major and minor constituents.
10. Recognize that a particular meaning may be expressed in different grammatical
forms.
11. Recognize cohesive devices in spoken discourse.
12. Recognize the communicative functions of utterance, according to situations,
participants, goals.
13. Infer situations, participants, goals using real world knowledge.
14. From events, ideas, etc., described, predict outcomes, infer links and connections
between events, deduce causes and effects, and detect such relations as main ideas,
supporting idea, new information, given information, generalization, and
exemplifications.
15. Distinguish between literal and implied meaning.
16. Use facial, kinetic, “body language,” and other nonverbal clues to decipher
meanings.
17. Develop and use a battery of listening strategies, such as detecting key words,
guessing the meaning of words from context, appeal from help, and signaling
comprehension or lack thereof.
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6. Types of Classroom Listening
Performance
Reactive
Intensive
Responsive
Selective
Extensive
Interactive
Repeating
utterances
Focusing on
components
Eliciting
immediate
responses
Scanning
the materials
selectively
Developing
top-down,
global
understanding
Actively
participatin
g in the
activities
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7. Principles for Designing
Listening Techniques
1. In an interactive, four skills curriculum, make sure that you
don’t overlook the importance of techniques that specially
develop listening comprehension competence.
2. Techniques should be intrinsically motivating.
3. Techniques should utilize authentic language and contexts.
4. Carefully consider the form of listeners’ responses.
5. Encourage the development of listening strategies.
6. Include both bottom-up and top-down listening techniques.
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