The document discusses discourse competence, which is defined as the ability to understand, create, and develop forms of language longer than sentences with appropriate cohesion, coherence, and organization. It examines how discourse competence emerged as a goal in language teaching and models proposed by scholars. Key aspects of discourse competence include cohesion, coherence, rhetorical effectiveness, and thematic organization. The document also provides examples of exercises to develop discourse competence and innovations such as content-based language teaching and contrastive rhetoric.
Discusses about the nature and importance of listening and how it imposes great significance to learning.
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LISTENING
“A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory.”
Out of the four language skills, (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening)
LISTENING HAS BEEN SADLY NEGLECTED
LANGUAGE
Basically ORAL
Students should develop their listening and speaking skills side by side with their reading and writing skills
60% - 70% of the time
An average student can listen to their teachers and classmates in school, to their parents and other members of the family at home, to announcers on the radio and television programs.
IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING
Accurate and perceptive listening will minimize misunderstandings and help students to sustain satisfying and productive relationships.
Careful listening can be critical to work situations.
Listening enables listeners to provide feedback to speakers.
Effective listening abilities strengthen the other language arts: reading comprehension and written communication.
NATURE OF LISTENING
LISTENING
A complex skill that requires attention and energy
Involves;
Recognition - Selection - Short Memory - Inference
Explanation:
The listener recognizes the sounds and the words; he engages in a process of selection on two levels – selecting sounds and words and grouping them into meaningful units as well as selecting the information relevant to his purpose in listening. This information is stored in then stored in the short-term memory, ready to be used; the inference is about the speakers age, beliefs, feelings, etc. Is an important micro-skill in listening.
LISTENING
A creative skill.
We hear sounds, words, the rise and fall of voice, from all which we create significance.
We listen not for the words alone but for the meanings.
Rivers; significance depends on three factors:
Linguistic information which the listeners perceive aurally of sounds, words, and their arrangements in utterances
Situational context of the utterance
Intentions of the speaker
Many of the students can hear but do not comprehend because it is only the linguistic content of the utterance that is given attention.
Discusses about the nature and importance of listening and how it imposes great significance to learning.
Detailed copy of the topic: (FOR HAND-OUTS)
LISTENING
“A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory.”
Out of the four language skills, (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening)
LISTENING HAS BEEN SADLY NEGLECTED
LANGUAGE
Basically ORAL
Students should develop their listening and speaking skills side by side with their reading and writing skills
60% - 70% of the time
An average student can listen to their teachers and classmates in school, to their parents and other members of the family at home, to announcers on the radio and television programs.
IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING
Accurate and perceptive listening will minimize misunderstandings and help students to sustain satisfying and productive relationships.
Careful listening can be critical to work situations.
Listening enables listeners to provide feedback to speakers.
Effective listening abilities strengthen the other language arts: reading comprehension and written communication.
NATURE OF LISTENING
LISTENING
A complex skill that requires attention and energy
Involves;
Recognition - Selection - Short Memory - Inference
Explanation:
The listener recognizes the sounds and the words; he engages in a process of selection on two levels – selecting sounds and words and grouping them into meaningful units as well as selecting the information relevant to his purpose in listening. This information is stored in then stored in the short-term memory, ready to be used; the inference is about the speakers age, beliefs, feelings, etc. Is an important micro-skill in listening.
LISTENING
A creative skill.
We hear sounds, words, the rise and fall of voice, from all which we create significance.
We listen not for the words alone but for the meanings.
Rivers; significance depends on three factors:
Linguistic information which the listeners perceive aurally of sounds, words, and their arrangements in utterances
Situational context of the utterance
Intentions of the speaker
Many of the students can hear but do not comprehend because it is only the linguistic content of the utterance that is given attention.
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2. The discourse competence had to
await until the communicative
competence was broken into sub-
competences to appear as a goal in
FLT.
Canale and Swain (1980) and Canale (1983),
distinguished four aspects of communicative
competence:
5. Discourse Competence can be seen as the ability to
understand, create and develop forms of the language
that are longer than sentences (stories, conversations,
letters, …) with the appropriate cohesion, coherence
and rhetorical organization to combine ideas.
It consists of
four main
elements:
purposes (aims,
goals or
objectives)
instruction
(treatment or
procedures)
content
and evaluation
6. The discourse competence is defined as “the ability of a
user/learner to arrange sentences in sequence so as to
produce coherent stretches of language. It includes knowledge
of and ability to control the ordering of sentences in terms of:
• topic/focus;
• given/new;
• ‘natural’ sequencing: e.g. temporal: He fell over and I hit him, as
against I hit him and he fell over.
• cause/effect (invertible) – prices are rising – people want higher
wages.
• ability to structure and manage discourse in terms of:
o thematic organisation;
o coherence and cohesion;
o logical ordering;
o style and register;
o rhetorical effectiveness;
7. For a text to have texture it must include “ties” that bind it
together. These “ties” are called cohesive ties and, given that
cohesion is expressed partly through the grammar and partly
through the vocabulary, there are different types of cohesive
ties, such as:
Cohesion
reference substitution Ellipsis
discourse
markers
lexical
cohesion
8. Cohesion “refers to relations of meaning that exist within
the text, and that define it as a text” (Halliday & Hasan
1976:4). There is cohesion when the interpretation of
an element in the text is dependent on that of
another, that is, “cohesion is a semantic relation
between an element in the text and some other
element that is crucial to the interpretation of it” .
9. Coherence
Richards, Platt and Platt (1993:61) define coherence as the relationships
which link
the meanings of sentences in a discourse. For example:
* John hid Bill’s keys. He was drunk.
* John hid Bill’s keys. He likes spinach.
In the first utterance, we presume that hiding someone’s keys can be an
effect of being drunk, so both sentences make sense even though
they do not have anything in common related to grammar or lexicon;
we simply know that when someone drinks a lot, he or she behaves in
strange ways. However, in the second utterance, there is no coherence:
the fact that John likes spinach does not have any relationship with that
of hiding Bill’s keys.
10. Pirez Martin points out some examples
of exercises to develop the discourse
competence:
1. Lexical cohesion devices in context (e.g. use of synonyms)
2. Grammatical cohesion devices in context (e.g. ellipsis, logical connectors,
parallel structures )
3. Identify the clauses which has the thesis statement.
4. Oral discourse patterns (e.g. the normal progression of meanings in a
casual conversation)
5. Link a paragraph with the following one.
6. Written discourse patterns (e.g. the normal progression of meanings in a
formal letter)
7. To be able to work out an introduction/development/conclusion of a piece
of oral or written language.
11. INNOVATIONS ABOUT THE
DISCOURSE COMPETENCE
Culture and
discourse:
contrastive
rhetoric
Critical
thinking
Content-
based
language
teaching
12. Jacobs and Farrell (2001:6) give their definition and explain
the benefits of content-based instruction:
‘Curricular integration serves to overcome the phenomenon
in which students study one subject in one period, close
their textbook and go to another class, open another
textbook and study another subject. When various subject
areas are taught jointly, learners have more opportunities
to see the links between subject areas. By appreciating
these links, students develop a stronger grasp of a subject
matter, a deeper purpose for learning and a grater ability to
analyze situations in a holistic manner’.
13. Contrastive rhetoric represents the study of diversity in discourse.
Facing two written texts from two different communities, Contrastive
Rhetoric wonders what these texts are like, what similarities and
differences they have. After the analysis, it interprets both the
similarities and the differences looking for historical, social, educational
or any other plausible explanation. Finally, it provides teachers with
suggestions to deal with diversity at the discourse level.
Contrastive rhetoric has been changing during these 40 years but the
key original idea, from 1966 article, can be summarised as follows
(Kaplan 1966:2): ‘Logic (in the popular, rather than the logician's sense
of the word) which is the basis of rhetoric, is evolved out of culture; it
is not universal. Rhetoric, then, is not universal either, but varies from
culture to culture and even from time to time within a given culture’.
14. Assessment of the discourse competence
COHERENCE AND COHESION
C2 Can create coherent and cohesive text making full and
appropriate use of a variety of organisational patterns and a
wide range of cohesive devices.
C1 Can produce clear, smoothly flowing, well-structured speech,
showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors
and cohesive devices.
B2 Can use a variety of linking words efficiently to mark clearly the
relationships between ideas
Can use a limited number of cohesive devices to link
his/her utterances into clear, coherent discourse, though there
may be some ‘jumpiness’ in a long contribution.
15. B1 Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a
connected, linear sequence of
points.
A2 Can use the most frequently occurring connectors to link
simple sentences in order to tell
a story or describe something as a simple list of points
Can link groups of words with simple connectors like ‘and’,
‘but’ and ‘because’.
A1 A1 Can link words or groups of words with very basic linear
connectors like ‘and’ or ‘then’.