This document discusses listening as a receptive skill that involves hearing and perceiving messages. It describes the stages of listening as hearing, processing, and evaluating. It outlines subskills like predicting themes, understanding collocations, and grasping mood. It also discusses phases like pre-listening, on-listening, and post-listening. It defines types of listening such as extensive, intensive, focused, and casual. Barriers to listening mentioned include linguistic, physiological, and psychological factors. Techniques to develop listening skills proposed include phoneme recognition tests, responding to stress/intonation, dictation, simulation, and extended communication.

2. LISTENING
Submitted By
Anju Soman
Option :English
Roll No: 4

3. LISTENING PROCESS
 Listening is hearing and perceiving a message
 It is a mental function
 It is receptive skill but it is an active process
 Listening skills also designated as Aural–Oral skill

4. STAGES OF LISTENING PROCESS
 Hearing
 Processing
 Evaluating

5. SUB SKILLS
 Predicting what the speaker’s main theme word and
guessing the word he would use next.
 Understanding the collocation of words (adjective, adverbs,
etc).
 Grasping the mood and import of the speaker his attitude
and the meaning implied by stress, intonation, etc.
 Understanding how the speaker develops his idea logically
and sequentially and his stylistics.
 Inferring and selecting information of interest to the listener.

6. PHASES OF LISTENING
ACTIVITY

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 SKILLS
 Extensive listening
It is enjoyment in general without any immediate purpose.
 Intensive listening
It is with more concentrated attention and is purposeful.
 Focused listening
It means converging an attention to a specific purpose at a
time.
 Casual listening
Not purposefully we may happen to listening a news, or an
announcement.

11. BARRIERS AFFECTING LISTENING
 Linguistic
 Use of hard words/Registers
 Noisy environment
 Physiological
 Negative attitude
 Psychological

12. TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING
LISTENING SKILLS
 Phoneme recognition test
 Responding to stress and intonation
 Dictation
 Simulation
 Extended communication
 Polite forms

13. THANK YOU