The document discusses top-down and bottom-up listening processes. Top-down listening involves using contextual and schematic knowledge to understand a message, while bottom-up listening involves segmenting sounds and recognizing words without context. It recommends teaching listening strategies like prediction, monitoring comprehension, and evaluation. Specific strategies are outlined for teaching listening skills like understanding stress and intonation patterns, telephone conversations, and speech acts. Effective listening tasks extract topics, details, and evaluate emotional impact. Native and non-native listeners must use contextual and phonological clues to interpret oral messages.
Discourse and Context in Language Teaching (Listening)GalvanFlor
The document discusses important concepts and strategies related to teaching listening skills to second language learners. It describes the difference between top-down and bottom-up listening processes, and how both are needed for effective comprehension. Top-down listening involves using context and background knowledge, while bottom-up listening focuses on decoding individual sounds and words. The document provides advice on activities to teach specific listening strategies like prediction, monitoring, and evaluation. It also discusses the importance of exposing learners to authentic listening materials like phone conversations and voicemails to improve their interpretive skills.
Designing tasks and lessons listening and viewingJoyce Lee
The document provides guidance on designing effective listening tasks for language instruction. It discusses different types of tasks such as mechanical, meaningful, and communicative responses. Principles for task selection include matching the task type to the learning objectives, text type, and social context. Tasks should teach listening skills rather than test comprehension. Lesson planning should include pre-listening, during listening, and post-listening activities to scaffold the development of cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
The document discusses skills and strategies for proficient listening at different levels of language proficiency. It explains that reception of a language should precede production to allow internalization. Comprehension involves both top-down and bottom-up processes. Principles for classroom listening include increasing listening time, using both global and selective listening, and developing conscious listening strategies. Skills involve subprocesses like chunking input, while strategies are consciously used operations. Suggestions are provided for teachers to focus students on unstressed endings, function words, and interactive listening strategies.
This document discusses key aspects of teaching listening skills to language learners. It defines listening as an active process where learners try to understand spoken words and attach meaning. While listening was once seen as a passive skill, it is actually an active process of constructing meaning from sounds. Effective listening requires language knowledge as well as socio-cultural and strategic competence. Studies show that both first language listening ability and second language proficiency contribute to comprehension, with proficiency being a stronger predictor. The document also discusses using top-down and bottom-up skills in listening, and outlines the stages of pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening activities.
Brown - 8 Factors in Listening ComprehensionDaniel Beck
I made this slideshow to help study the 8 factors Brown lists in "Teaching by Principles" that make listening difficult. They are found on pages 304-307.
The document discusses assessing 4 major language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It provides definitions and examples of assessment tasks for each skill level of listening (imitative, intensive, selective, extensive) and speaking (imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, extensive). The skills are assessed through tasks such as repetition, question-answering, role plays, interviews, presentations and more to evaluate elements like vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
The document discusses various aspects of listening assessment, including micro and macro listening skills, factors that make listening difficult, and different types of listening tasks. It describes designing assessment tasks to evaluate intensive, responsive, selective and extensive listening. These include cloze tasks, information transfer, sentence repetition, dictation, questions, and note taking. Challenges with validity and scoring of certain tasks are also outlined.
Reading and Vocabulary: Knowing, Guessing and Looking It Up ETAI 2010
1) Knowing vocabulary, especially academic vocabulary, is essential for successful reading in a second language. Vocabulary knowledge contributes more to reading comprehension than other linguistic factors like grammar.
2) Guessing the meaning of unknown words from context has limitations and is not a reliable strategy for real reading. It can lead to frustration and incorrect guesses.
3) Looking up unknown words using a dictionary, especially electronic bilingual dictionaries, improves both vocabulary learning and reading comprehension. Students should be taught effective dictionary skills.
Discourse and Context in Language Teaching (Listening)GalvanFlor
The document discusses important concepts and strategies related to teaching listening skills to second language learners. It describes the difference between top-down and bottom-up listening processes, and how both are needed for effective comprehension. Top-down listening involves using context and background knowledge, while bottom-up listening focuses on decoding individual sounds and words. The document provides advice on activities to teach specific listening strategies like prediction, monitoring, and evaluation. It also discusses the importance of exposing learners to authentic listening materials like phone conversations and voicemails to improve their interpretive skills.
Designing tasks and lessons listening and viewingJoyce Lee
The document provides guidance on designing effective listening tasks for language instruction. It discusses different types of tasks such as mechanical, meaningful, and communicative responses. Principles for task selection include matching the task type to the learning objectives, text type, and social context. Tasks should teach listening skills rather than test comprehension. Lesson planning should include pre-listening, during listening, and post-listening activities to scaffold the development of cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
The document discusses skills and strategies for proficient listening at different levels of language proficiency. It explains that reception of a language should precede production to allow internalization. Comprehension involves both top-down and bottom-up processes. Principles for classroom listening include increasing listening time, using both global and selective listening, and developing conscious listening strategies. Skills involve subprocesses like chunking input, while strategies are consciously used operations. Suggestions are provided for teachers to focus students on unstressed endings, function words, and interactive listening strategies.
This document discusses key aspects of teaching listening skills to language learners. It defines listening as an active process where learners try to understand spoken words and attach meaning. While listening was once seen as a passive skill, it is actually an active process of constructing meaning from sounds. Effective listening requires language knowledge as well as socio-cultural and strategic competence. Studies show that both first language listening ability and second language proficiency contribute to comprehension, with proficiency being a stronger predictor. The document also discusses using top-down and bottom-up skills in listening, and outlines the stages of pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening activities.
Brown - 8 Factors in Listening ComprehensionDaniel Beck
I made this slideshow to help study the 8 factors Brown lists in "Teaching by Principles" that make listening difficult. They are found on pages 304-307.
The document discusses assessing 4 major language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It provides definitions and examples of assessment tasks for each skill level of listening (imitative, intensive, selective, extensive) and speaking (imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, extensive). The skills are assessed through tasks such as repetition, question-answering, role plays, interviews, presentations and more to evaluate elements like vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
The document discusses various aspects of listening assessment, including micro and macro listening skills, factors that make listening difficult, and different types of listening tasks. It describes designing assessment tasks to evaluate intensive, responsive, selective and extensive listening. These include cloze tasks, information transfer, sentence repetition, dictation, questions, and note taking. Challenges with validity and scoring of certain tasks are also outlined.
Reading and Vocabulary: Knowing, Guessing and Looking It Up ETAI 2010
1) Knowing vocabulary, especially academic vocabulary, is essential for successful reading in a second language. Vocabulary knowledge contributes more to reading comprehension than other linguistic factors like grammar.
2) Guessing the meaning of unknown words from context has limitations and is not a reliable strategy for real reading. It can lead to frustration and incorrect guesses.
3) Looking up unknown words using a dictionary, especially electronic bilingual dictionaries, improves both vocabulary learning and reading comprehension. Students should be taught effective dictionary skills.
2.3 tests of receptive skills: workshop CTS-AcademicSeltAcademy
This document summarizes a session on developing tests for reading and listening comprehension. It discusses the challenges in testing comprehension indirectly without observing learner behavior. It also covers selecting appropriate texts, writing different task types like multiple choice and short answer questions, and the pros and cons of each task type. The document provides tips for writing good multiple choice distractors and balancing the difficulty of comprehension questions.
This document discusses listening assessment and strategies for developing listening skills. It notes that listening is an integrated skill that requires comprehension and can be improved with strategies and practice. Some key strategies it recommends include incorporating real-life elements into the classroom, using recordings as part of listening exercises, and designing exercises around tasks that require note-taking, responding to questions, or filling information gaps. A variety of exercise types are proposed targeting different levels, from individual sounds and words to longer responses requiring paraphrasing or problem-solving. The document emphasizes that assessment of listening should be ongoing and focus on comprehending spoken English rather than "testing".
This document provides an overview of assessing listening skills. It discusses the nature of listening as an active process using linguistic and non-linguistic cues. Key concepts in language assessment like practicality, reliability, validity and authenticity are also covered. The document outlines observing performance through multiple tests, tasks and forms of assessment. It describes the importance of listening and basic types of listening like intensive, responsive, selective and extensive. Microskills and macroskills of listening are defined. The document provides examples of designing assessment tasks for intensive listening focusing on recognizing phonological/morphological elements and paraphrase recognition.
While assessing Language acquisition, one of the most difficult skill to assess is listening. This presentation explores methods that can be used to assess listening - intensive, responsive, selective and extensive. This also looks at some tasks that can be used to assess listening. The presentation is based on the book published by Brown on Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practice published by Longman. The presentation was created by Shama Kalam Siddiqui for presentation and talk at Ateneo De Manila University for a Masters in English and Literature Teaching Program.
In recent times, there has been a lot of debate on the very important question about differences between reading and listening and which of the two leads to better comprehension, retention and efficiency.
The document discusses teaching listening skills. It outlines micro skills like recognizing grammatical structures and cohesive devices. Macro skills include inferring meaning from context and non-verbal cues. Effective listening instruction exposes students to different texts and tasks, considers text difficulty and authenticity, and teaches strategies. Preparation, multiple exposures, and drawing out meaning are important. Tasks should match the listening stage from straightforward to more complex like note-taking, summarizing, and problem-solving.
Receptive skills reading and listeningAisa Jadulco
This document discusses receptive skills like listening and reading when learning a new language. It notes that listening requires real-time processing without the ability to go back and check, unlike reading. Key differences between listening and reading are outlined, such as the use of weak forms in speaking vs clarity in writing. Effective ways to teach listening and reading lessons are presented, including pre-teaching vocabulary, gist and detailed tasks, and student response. Strategies for listening exams and reading tasks are also provided.
Assessing listening skills is important for teachers to evaluate student competencies and make decisions. It is necessary to consider student performance over multiple tests to reliably gauge abilities, as one bad performance does not indicate true competence. Listening is one of the most difficult skills for second language learners due to the many elements that must be processed simultaneously, like speech sounds, types of speech events, and assigning meaning. When assessing listening, tests should be designed according to student levels and aim to improve this receptive skill over time by moving from basic to more advanced objectives like comprehending different types of listening performance.
This Powerpoint Presentation was created for a course titled "Practicum in Reading Instruction and Assessment" a required course for the M.Ed. in Reading Education at the University of Georgia.
1. The document discusses what makes listening difficult for language learners, including clustering information, redundancy, reduced forms, performance variables, colloquial language, rate of delivery, stress/rhythm/intonation, and interaction.
2. It provides principles for designing listening techniques, such as using intrinsically motivating and authentic materials tailored to students' abilities.
3. Techniques should check comprehension in various ways and encourage the development of listening strategies like predicting meaning from context.
The document discusses assessing listening skills. It defines listening as an active process involving both linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge. Listening assessment is important because the act of listening cannot be observed. The document outlines different types of listening like intensive, extensive, selective, and responsive. It provides examples of assessment tasks that can measure various dimensions of listening including phonological recognition, paraphrasing, answering questions, note-taking, and retelling stories.
The document discusses various methods for assessing speaking ability, divided into 5 basic types - imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive. It then provides details on designing assessment tasks for each type. For imitative speaking, tasks include repetition and read-alouds. Intensive tasks include directed responses, fill-in-the-blank dialogs, and picture prompts. Responsive tasks involve questions and answers or giving instructions. Interactive tasks include interviews, role-plays, and discussions. Extensive tasks include oral presentations, storytelling, and translations. The document emphasizes matching tasks to objectives and establishing reliable scoring criteria.
Brown - 8 Processes Involved in Listening ComprehensionDaniel Beck
The document outlines 8 processes involved in listening comprehension. The processes are: 1) processing raw speech, 2) determining the type of speech, 3) inferring the speaker's objectives, 4) recalling background information, 5) assigning literal meaning, 6) assigning intended meaning, 7) retaining information short or long-term, and 8) deleting the original form of the message. The document provides examples for some of the processes.
The document discusses various methods for assessing speaking skills in tests. It describes a continuum of speaking tasks from imitative to extensive. Imitative tasks involve simple repetition, while intensive tasks assess narrow grammatical skills through short responses. Responsive tasks involve simple interactions, and interactive tasks have longer, more complex exchanges. Extensive speaking includes speeches and presentations with limited feedback. The document also discusses techniques like role plays, interviews and games to assess speaking at different levels.
The document discusses different types of listening assessment, including intensive listening, responsive listening, selective listening, and extensive listening. It provides examples of assessment tasks for each type, such as phonemic pair exercises, sentence paraphrasing, information transfer through pictures, and dictation. The document also discusses communicative stimulus-response tasks and more authentic assessment methods like note-taking, editing, interpretive tasks, retelling, and interactive listening.
From the CALPER/LARC Testing and Assessment Webinar Series
Download the handouts and ppt: https://larc.sdsu.edu/archived-events/
View the recording: http://vimeo.com/58413470
Presentation Description
The word assessment comes from the Latin assidere, meaning to sit beside. This notion evokes the image of learner and teacher working together to improve learning and teaching. Involving learners in assessment helps them reflect on their learning, set goals, monitor progress, and regularly evaluate their goals. In the case of listening, learners become aware of the cognitive processes and develop greater metacognitive awareness of listening to help them better regulate their comprehension processes. This leads to greater learner investment and motivation and, ultimately, autonomous language learners.
Comprehension, the product of listening, can be assessed by a variety of informal and formal methods. In this webinar, we will examine and discuss a number of examples of formative assessment of listening. We will then discuss some issues related to these examples, as well as some well-known examples of summative assessment, in light of five important criteria: 1) validity; 2) reliability; 3) authenticity; 4) washback; and 5) practicality.
Webinar Date: 2/23/2012
The document discusses several key aspects of teaching reading, including viewing reading as a process, the role of schemas in reading, and different classroom reading procedures and activities. It describes reading as involving an interaction between the text and the reader to construct meaning. Pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities are discussed as ways to actively engage students in the reading process.
This document provides an overview of major issues in reading in English language teaching, including bottom-up and top-down reading processes, schema theory, reading as an interactive, purposeful, and critical process, extensive reading, text genres and registers, and implications for EFL reading programs. Key concepts discussed include decoding words, reconstructing meaning, using background knowledge, reading for different purposes, and encouraging extensive independent reading outside of class.
The document discusses factors that affect listening comprehension in language testing. It describes the listening construct and various sub-skills involved, including linguistic processing, relating information to context, and simultaneous bottom-up and top-down processing. Task types and formats are also covered, such as note-taking, question preview, visual aids, and multiple choice vs open-ended questions. Variables like speech rate, vocabulary difficulty, and noise levels can impact listening difficulty. Overall, listening comprehension is a complex process that involves many interacting variables.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It includes preparation activities like assessing students' prior knowledge of listening concepts. A presentation will define global listening and provide an example conversation. Practice activities will include controlled exercises labeling diagrams and answering questions, guided exercises completing stories and family trees, and free exercises like writing responses to a song. Feedback will be provided to help students improve. The lesson aims to help students understand implied meanings and discard redundant parts of conversations.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It includes preparation activities like assessing prior knowledge and identifying difficulties. A presentation on listening strategies is followed by examples and an explanation of global listening. Suggested techniques include short texts, pre-listening questions, and modeling at a natural pace. Practice activities range from controlled exercises with clear directions to guided activities with partial frameworks to free creative tasks. Feedback is provided to help students improve. The goal is to train students to understand confusing conversations by discarding unnecessary parts.
2.3 tests of receptive skills: workshop CTS-AcademicSeltAcademy
This document summarizes a session on developing tests for reading and listening comprehension. It discusses the challenges in testing comprehension indirectly without observing learner behavior. It also covers selecting appropriate texts, writing different task types like multiple choice and short answer questions, and the pros and cons of each task type. The document provides tips for writing good multiple choice distractors and balancing the difficulty of comprehension questions.
This document discusses listening assessment and strategies for developing listening skills. It notes that listening is an integrated skill that requires comprehension and can be improved with strategies and practice. Some key strategies it recommends include incorporating real-life elements into the classroom, using recordings as part of listening exercises, and designing exercises around tasks that require note-taking, responding to questions, or filling information gaps. A variety of exercise types are proposed targeting different levels, from individual sounds and words to longer responses requiring paraphrasing or problem-solving. The document emphasizes that assessment of listening should be ongoing and focus on comprehending spoken English rather than "testing".
This document provides an overview of assessing listening skills. It discusses the nature of listening as an active process using linguistic and non-linguistic cues. Key concepts in language assessment like practicality, reliability, validity and authenticity are also covered. The document outlines observing performance through multiple tests, tasks and forms of assessment. It describes the importance of listening and basic types of listening like intensive, responsive, selective and extensive. Microskills and macroskills of listening are defined. The document provides examples of designing assessment tasks for intensive listening focusing on recognizing phonological/morphological elements and paraphrase recognition.
While assessing Language acquisition, one of the most difficult skill to assess is listening. This presentation explores methods that can be used to assess listening - intensive, responsive, selective and extensive. This also looks at some tasks that can be used to assess listening. The presentation is based on the book published by Brown on Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practice published by Longman. The presentation was created by Shama Kalam Siddiqui for presentation and talk at Ateneo De Manila University for a Masters in English and Literature Teaching Program.
In recent times, there has been a lot of debate on the very important question about differences between reading and listening and which of the two leads to better comprehension, retention and efficiency.
The document discusses teaching listening skills. It outlines micro skills like recognizing grammatical structures and cohesive devices. Macro skills include inferring meaning from context and non-verbal cues. Effective listening instruction exposes students to different texts and tasks, considers text difficulty and authenticity, and teaches strategies. Preparation, multiple exposures, and drawing out meaning are important. Tasks should match the listening stage from straightforward to more complex like note-taking, summarizing, and problem-solving.
Receptive skills reading and listeningAisa Jadulco
This document discusses receptive skills like listening and reading when learning a new language. It notes that listening requires real-time processing without the ability to go back and check, unlike reading. Key differences between listening and reading are outlined, such as the use of weak forms in speaking vs clarity in writing. Effective ways to teach listening and reading lessons are presented, including pre-teaching vocabulary, gist and detailed tasks, and student response. Strategies for listening exams and reading tasks are also provided.
Assessing listening skills is important for teachers to evaluate student competencies and make decisions. It is necessary to consider student performance over multiple tests to reliably gauge abilities, as one bad performance does not indicate true competence. Listening is one of the most difficult skills for second language learners due to the many elements that must be processed simultaneously, like speech sounds, types of speech events, and assigning meaning. When assessing listening, tests should be designed according to student levels and aim to improve this receptive skill over time by moving from basic to more advanced objectives like comprehending different types of listening performance.
This Powerpoint Presentation was created for a course titled "Practicum in Reading Instruction and Assessment" a required course for the M.Ed. in Reading Education at the University of Georgia.
1. The document discusses what makes listening difficult for language learners, including clustering information, redundancy, reduced forms, performance variables, colloquial language, rate of delivery, stress/rhythm/intonation, and interaction.
2. It provides principles for designing listening techniques, such as using intrinsically motivating and authentic materials tailored to students' abilities.
3. Techniques should check comprehension in various ways and encourage the development of listening strategies like predicting meaning from context.
The document discusses assessing listening skills. It defines listening as an active process involving both linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge. Listening assessment is important because the act of listening cannot be observed. The document outlines different types of listening like intensive, extensive, selective, and responsive. It provides examples of assessment tasks that can measure various dimensions of listening including phonological recognition, paraphrasing, answering questions, note-taking, and retelling stories.
The document discusses various methods for assessing speaking ability, divided into 5 basic types - imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive. It then provides details on designing assessment tasks for each type. For imitative speaking, tasks include repetition and read-alouds. Intensive tasks include directed responses, fill-in-the-blank dialogs, and picture prompts. Responsive tasks involve questions and answers or giving instructions. Interactive tasks include interviews, role-plays, and discussions. Extensive tasks include oral presentations, storytelling, and translations. The document emphasizes matching tasks to objectives and establishing reliable scoring criteria.
Brown - 8 Processes Involved in Listening ComprehensionDaniel Beck
The document outlines 8 processes involved in listening comprehension. The processes are: 1) processing raw speech, 2) determining the type of speech, 3) inferring the speaker's objectives, 4) recalling background information, 5) assigning literal meaning, 6) assigning intended meaning, 7) retaining information short or long-term, and 8) deleting the original form of the message. The document provides examples for some of the processes.
The document discusses various methods for assessing speaking skills in tests. It describes a continuum of speaking tasks from imitative to extensive. Imitative tasks involve simple repetition, while intensive tasks assess narrow grammatical skills through short responses. Responsive tasks involve simple interactions, and interactive tasks have longer, more complex exchanges. Extensive speaking includes speeches and presentations with limited feedback. The document also discusses techniques like role plays, interviews and games to assess speaking at different levels.
The document discusses different types of listening assessment, including intensive listening, responsive listening, selective listening, and extensive listening. It provides examples of assessment tasks for each type, such as phonemic pair exercises, sentence paraphrasing, information transfer through pictures, and dictation. The document also discusses communicative stimulus-response tasks and more authentic assessment methods like note-taking, editing, interpretive tasks, retelling, and interactive listening.
From the CALPER/LARC Testing and Assessment Webinar Series
Download the handouts and ppt: https://larc.sdsu.edu/archived-events/
View the recording: http://vimeo.com/58413470
Presentation Description
The word assessment comes from the Latin assidere, meaning to sit beside. This notion evokes the image of learner and teacher working together to improve learning and teaching. Involving learners in assessment helps them reflect on their learning, set goals, monitor progress, and regularly evaluate their goals. In the case of listening, learners become aware of the cognitive processes and develop greater metacognitive awareness of listening to help them better regulate their comprehension processes. This leads to greater learner investment and motivation and, ultimately, autonomous language learners.
Comprehension, the product of listening, can be assessed by a variety of informal and formal methods. In this webinar, we will examine and discuss a number of examples of formative assessment of listening. We will then discuss some issues related to these examples, as well as some well-known examples of summative assessment, in light of five important criteria: 1) validity; 2) reliability; 3) authenticity; 4) washback; and 5) practicality.
Webinar Date: 2/23/2012
The document discusses several key aspects of teaching reading, including viewing reading as a process, the role of schemas in reading, and different classroom reading procedures and activities. It describes reading as involving an interaction between the text and the reader to construct meaning. Pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities are discussed as ways to actively engage students in the reading process.
This document provides an overview of major issues in reading in English language teaching, including bottom-up and top-down reading processes, schema theory, reading as an interactive, purposeful, and critical process, extensive reading, text genres and registers, and implications for EFL reading programs. Key concepts discussed include decoding words, reconstructing meaning, using background knowledge, reading for different purposes, and encouraging extensive independent reading outside of class.
The document discusses factors that affect listening comprehension in language testing. It describes the listening construct and various sub-skills involved, including linguistic processing, relating information to context, and simultaneous bottom-up and top-down processing. Task types and formats are also covered, such as note-taking, question preview, visual aids, and multiple choice vs open-ended questions. Variables like speech rate, vocabulary difficulty, and noise levels can impact listening difficulty. Overall, listening comprehension is a complex process that involves many interacting variables.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It includes preparation activities like assessing students' prior knowledge of listening concepts. A presentation will define global listening and provide an example conversation. Practice activities will include controlled exercises labeling diagrams and answering questions, guided exercises completing stories and family trees, and free exercises like writing responses to a song. Feedback will be provided to help students improve. The lesson aims to help students understand implied meanings and discard redundant parts of conversations.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It includes preparation activities like assessing prior knowledge and identifying difficulties. A presentation on listening strategies is followed by examples and an explanation of global listening. Suggested techniques include short texts, pre-listening questions, and modeling at a natural pace. Practice activities range from controlled exercises with clear directions to guided activities with partial frameworks to free creative tasks. Feedback is provided to help students improve. The goal is to train students to understand confusing conversations by discarding unnecessary parts.
This lesson plan aims to develop students' global listening abilities in 40 minutes. It will begin with warm-up questions to assess students' current listening skills and background knowledge. Then, the teacher will present information on global listening through explanations, examples, and activities. Students will learn to discern main ideas and discard unnecessary details. Suggestions are provided to improve global listening through short texts, preparation, and visual aids. The lesson concludes with techniques for global listening practice, such as modeling at a slower pace and using prediction and context clues.
This lesson plan aims to develop students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It begins with warm-up activities to assess students' listening abilities and background knowledge. New material on global listening is then presented through explanations and examples. Various techniques are discussed for improving global listening, such as preparing students beforehand and using short texts. Controlled, guided, and free practice activities are also outlined to give students opportunities to develop their skills, moving from fully structured to more open-ended tasks. The lesson plan provides a comprehensive overview of how to teach global listening at the secondary level.
This lesson plan aims to develop students' global listening skills over 40 minutes. It begins with warm-up activities to assess students' listening abilities and background knowledge. New material on global listening is then presented through explanations and examples. Various techniques are discussed for improving global listening, such as preparing students beforehand and using short texts. Controlled, guided, and free practice activities are also outlined to give students opportunities to develop their skills, moving from more structured to more open-ended tasks. The lesson plan provides a comprehensive overview of how to teach global listening at the secondary level.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening abilities over 40 minutes. It will teach basic listening strategies and identify flaws. Various activities using audio recordings, videos, and handouts will expose students to different listening situations. The procedure involves a warm-up, presentation of new concepts, and three levels of practice - controlled, guided, and free - to give students ample opportunity to develop their skills. Suggestions are provided to select appropriate texts and design effective pre, while, and post listening activities tailored to the instructional goals and students' proficiency levels.
This lesson plan aims to develop secondary students' global listening abilities over 40 minutes. It begins with a warm-up discussion to assess their current skills. The teacher then presents strategies for global listening through examples and explanations. Students practice global listening through short controlled exercises identifying people, labeling diagrams, and answering questions about stories. Guided exercises require students to add to family trees and continue stories. Free activities challenge advanced students to create their own continuation of stories. The plan provides structured listening practice to build students' global comprehension skills.
Teaching the language and the skills RECEPTIVE.pptxNadiaSimn1
This document discusses teaching language skills and systems. It covers the four main language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It also discusses language systems including lexis, grammar, and pronunciation. It emphasizes the importance of teaching both receptive skills like listening and reading as well as productive skills like speaking and writing. It provides guidance on developing strategies and procedures for teaching these various skills through approaches like deductive and inductive instruction.
The document provides guidance on teaching listening skills to language learners. It discusses what listening involves, including understanding main ideas and details. It also identifies reasons why learners may find listening difficult, such as focusing on individual words. The document then outlines different stages and types of listening activities, and provides steps for developing listening lessons, including pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening techniques.
The document discusses teaching listening skills. It defines listening as an active process where the listener tries to understand meaning from sounds. Listening was historically overlooked but is now recognized as active. Teaching listening helps students function in real situations and activates their mental lexicon. Active listening focuses on understanding without responding, while passive listening involves multitasking. Active listening improves learning and relationships. The listening process involves bottom-up and top-down models as well as using schemas. Challenges include difficulties with sounds, speed of speech, and maintaining focus.
This document discusses best practices for teaching interpretive listening skills in a foreign language classroom using authentic materials and 21st century technology. It provides guidance on developing students' listening strategies, selecting appropriate top-down and bottom-up strategies for tasks, and incorporating comprehension checks. Examples of potential authentic listening activities and resources are also presented, including videos, audio recordings, websites and music. The goal is to help students function in real-life communication situations in the target language.
This document discusses strategies for teaching listening skills to language learners. It begins by explaining the importance of listening as a fundamental skill for language acquisition. It then describes different types of listening, such as listening for gists, specific details, and implied meanings. The document outlines bottom-up and top-down listening strategies and explains that effective learners use both. It also presents Oxford's six strategy groups for language learning and provides steps and formats for organizing listening lessons, including pre-listening, extensive listening, and post-listening activities.
Different Strategies for Teaching Listening.pptxcarlo842542
The document discusses strategies for teaching listening skills to language learners. It begins by outlining why listening is an important skill and some challenges involved in listening comprehension. It then describes three categories of listening strategies: top-down strategies which use background knowledge; bottom-up strategies which focus on linguistic elements; and metacognitive strategies which involve planning, monitoring and evaluating comprehension. Specific strategies within each category are provided along with examples of activities and tips for helping students develop active listening abilities.
The document provides guidance on strategies for teaching listening skills. It discusses the importance of listening and outlines a three-stage approach for listening lessons: before, during, and after listening. The pre-listening stage prepares students with activities to build background knowledge and vocabulary. The while-listening stage focuses on comprehension with activities like note-taking. The post-listening stage allows students to respond to and analyze the content. A variety of activities are suggested for each stage, including questioning, mapping, and integrating other skills.
The document discusses developing listening and speaking skills for communication. It argues the main goal of an English course should be developing students' communication abilities rather than just language mastery. Effective communication focuses on ideas over precise language use. The document also outlines debates around developing listening skills, the listening process, types of listening, and implications for the classroom, including designing pre-, during, and post-listening activities.
This document discusses the importance and process of listening. It identifies 5 stages of listening: receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding. At the receiving stage, the listener focuses on the speaker's message. At the understanding stage, the listener attempts to determine the meaning while being aware their own perceptions may differ. The remembering stage involves retaining the message. During evaluating, the listener judges the value of the message. Finally, at the responding stage, the listener provides feedback through their actions. The document also explores top-down and bottom-up listening processes and identifies 16 key listening skills. It emphasizes the importance of listening for both comprehending and acquiring a new language according to theories like Krashen's input hypothesis.
The document discusses strategies for teaching listening skills to language learners. It begins by outlining why listening is an important skill and some challenges involved in listening comprehension. It then describes three categories of listening strategies: top-down strategies which use background knowledge; bottom-up strategies which focus on linguistic elements; and metacognitive strategies which involve planning, monitoring and evaluating comprehension. Specific strategies within each category are provided as examples. The document concludes by offering tips for helping students become active listeners, such as modeling strategies and providing contextualized practice activities.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
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RPMS TEMPLATE FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2023-2024 FOR TEACHER 1 TO TEACHER 3
Listening
1. Discourse and Context in Language
Teaching
Listening
College: ISFD N° 41
Subject: Language and Written Expression IV
Teacher: Stella Maris Saubidet Oyhamburu
Members of the Group:
● Figueroa, Marlene.
● Galvan, Florencia.
● Gonzalez, Carla.
● Mohorovich, Stefania.
● Rodrigues de Abreu, Jacqueline.
2. PROCESSES
BOTTOM-UPTOP-DOWN
A top-down way of
understanding something
starts with a general idea
and adds details later.
A bottom-up way of
understanding is one in
which you think about
details before thinking
about general ideas.
5. BOTTOM-UP
PROCESS
It is not automatic for L2
speakers
They use...
Listening
strategies
Metacognition
Planning
Regulating
Monitoring
Management
Allow for :
-Prediction
-Monitoring of
errors
-Evaluation
6. SOME ADVICE TO TEACH LISTENING
STRATEGIES
-Use pre-listening activities to activate learners` background knowledge. (Look at the example
of slide n )
-Make clear to learners what they are going to listen to and why.
-Provide guided listening activities designed to provide a lot of practice in using a particular
strategy.
- Practice the strategy using real data with focus on context and meaning.
-Use what has been comprehended: take notes on a lecture to prepare a summary.
-Allow for self-evaluation.
According to
Mendelsohn
Related to metacognition
Related to metacognition
Related to
metacognition
7. PRE-LISTENING ACTIVITIES:
PREDICTING CONTENT
Depending on the context – at school, a conversation in a
supermarket – you can often predict the kind of words and
style of language the speaker will use. Our knowledge of the
world helps us anticipate the kind of information we are likely
to hear. When we predict the topic of a talk or a
conversation, all the related vocabulary stored in our
brains is 'activated' to help us better understand what
we're listening to.
Students can predict the topic and the vocabulary
they are going to listen to by looking at visual
material.
8. • What do you think about this
headline? What is it about?
• Where do you get the
information from?
• Do you know anything about
this topic?
Comprehension and interpretation
will take place depending on:
● listener's prior knowledge
● listener's memory and attention
● his/her general problem-solving
ability
9.
10.
11. Top-down vs. bottom-up listening
Situation A
“Over lunch, your friend tells you a story about a recent holiday, which was a disaster. You listen with
interest and interject at appropriate moments, maybe to express surprise or sympathy”
Situation B
“That evening, another friend calls to invite you to a party at her house the following Saturday. As you’ve
never been to her house before, she gives you directions. You listen carefully and write down notes”
12. Situation A
The way you listened to the holiday anecdote could be characterised as top-down listening. This refers to
the use of background knowledge in understanding the meaning of the message. Background knowledge
consists of context, that is, the situation and topic, and co-text, in other words, what came before and
after. The context of chatting to a friend in a casual environment itself narrows down the range of
possible topics. Once the topic of a holiday has been established, our knowledge of the kind of things that
can happen on holiday comes into play and helps us to ‘match’ the incoming sound signal against our
expectations of what we might hear and to fill out specific details.
13. Situation B
In contrast, when listening to directions to a friend’s house, comprehension is
achieved by dividing and decoding the sound signal bit by bit. The ability to
separate the stream of speech into individual words becomes more important
here, if we are to recognise, for example, the name of a street or an instruction to
take a particular bus.
In reality successful listening depends on the ability to combine these two types of
processes. Activities which work on each strategy separately should help students
to combine top-down and bottom-up processes to become more effective
listeners in real-life situations or longer classroom listenings.
15. Microprocessing Strategies
• Attending to stress and intonation and constructing a pattern, to fit
the utterance.
• Attending to stressed vowels.
• Segmenting the speech stream into words that correspond to the
stressed vowels and their adjacent consonants
• Seeking a phrase-with grammar and meaning- compatible with the
the first strategy and the words identified in the third.
16. Teaching Listening from a Discourse Perspective
An effective listener is able to use the situational context (co-text), to disambiguate or decide on the
best interpretation.
e.g.
(According to Eisenstein, learners that are exposed to this reduced speech forms
enhance their listening comprehension)
No. Why don´t you
call ´m?
Has Fred arrived yet?
Have they arrived yet?
17. Stress and Intonation:
In North American English
What do you? What are you?
whaddaya
Whaddaya want
for lunch?
Whaddaya gonna do this
evening?
CAN / CAN´T
I can´t deal with it!
I can deal with it!
There´s a complex
problem to be solved!
18. Practice in detecting PROMINENCE and explaining its function in discourse (signaling new information or
contrast), should be part of instruction in listening.
e.g. This hat is FORty pounds, not fourTEEN.
Prominence can occur on different syllables in different contexts to convey different meanings.
Malvinas war was in nineteen eighty TWO, not in nineteen eighty SIX.
Intonation:
The direction of the speaker pitch at the end of an utterance can be particularly crucial.
e.g. It´s an electric cuckoo clock. Declarative sentence.
It´s an electric cuckoo clock. Interrogative
19. Top-Down and Integrated Strategies.
Second language learners in English can benefit from:
★ Listening to a variety of lecture openings, and to predict what the lecture will
cover.
★ Listening to long segments of authentic lectures and working at getting the
gist, writing down the main points and topics.
★ Geddes and Sturtridge (1979) suggest the use of “jigsaw”listening activities,
to integrate with other skills in communicative language teaching.
Both Top-Down and Bottom-up processes interact. They are useful and
necessary for effective listening comprehension.
20. According to the students competence and interests, we can select different
activities.
➔Extract detailed information from a text
➔Grasp the gist of an extended text
➔Differentiate between fact and opinion
➔Identify the genre and register of a text
➔Recognize differences in intonation
➔Identify relationships between participants in aural interactions
➔Identify the emotional tone of an utterance
➔Comprehend the details of short conversations on unfamiliar topics
21. Bottom up strategies or Top-down strategies
● Before we start listening, we can already predict some words or phrases that
might be used because of our knowledge of lexical sets associated with the
topic.
● We listen carefully to a recording a number of times so that we can find a
word we can´t catch clearly.
● When we don´t clearly catch some of what people say, we hypothesise what
we have missed and reinstate what we think was there, based on our
knowledge of similar conversations.
● We know the typical pattern some interactions follow (e.g. when ordering a
taxi on the phone, when asking for information, etc.) and these help us to
understand these when they are spoken.
23. Voice Mail and Answering Machine
With the proliferation of voice mail system and
telephone answering machines, second language
listeners should be exposed to a variety of authentic
voice-mail messages: after each message they
should write down the essential information so they
would be able to respond appropriately.
24. Nonreciprocal Telephone Listening
Today many phones messages are pre recorded and the listener can not ask
questions or slow down the interlocutor. Getting the right information depends on
being able to understand the range of options, the specific instructions, and how
to respond by performing the proper action on the Touch Tone telephone.
25. Telephone Use: Everyday Conversation
Second language listeners need opportunities to interpret, and sum up what
they listen to. Their listening skills can be greatly facilitated if they are exposed to
authentic telephone conversations and also taught the conversational structure
and options as well as the formulaic expressions.
26. The general conversation structure of an informal telephone
conversation in North American English is as follows:
✓ Opening segment
✓ The “How Are You” segment
✓ Topic establishment
✓ Pre Closing
✓ Closing
27. Listening to a number of phone conversations that more or
less follow this pattern prepares second language learners
not only for informal telephone conversation but will also
assist them in being more effective in face to face
conversation
28.
29. SPEECH ACTS
A SPEECH ACT IS A FUNCTIONAL UNIT IN COMMUNICATION.
IT IS AN ACT THAT A SPEAKER PERFORMS MAKING AN UTTERANCE.
(Cohen, A.D)
For example:
● Making apologies.
● Making requests.
● Expressing gratitude.
● Making refusals.
32. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
MOST USEFUL EXERCISES
AND ACTIVITIES FOR L2
LISTENERS?
33. TASKS
❖Extract TOPIC/ GIST (First listening).
❖Get DETAILS of news item (Second listening). (Who, what, when, where)
❖Evaluate emotional impact of news items (Third listening) (This can vary but
the listener should give reasons for the choice):
● Neutral report of the information.
● Information makes me happy/sad.
● Information worries/surprises me.
● Information annoys me.
● Others.
34. Teachers need to design a variety of listening tasks that resemble games and at
the same time focus on identification and recognition of spoken sequences.
35. DISCOURSE FUNCTION OF ITEMS:
★ Cue words and discourse markers that signal what the main points and
minor points are.
★ Lexical and structural cues including lexical routines and chunks that signal
a new term and/or a definition or some other notional construct.
★ Key text segments that serve as higher order organizers.
★ Words and phrases used to open or close a topic in conversation.
★ Ways to ask a question or to interrupt the speaker.
★ Ways to ask for clarification or elaboration.
36. Conclusion
Native listeners and non natives listeners must actively use a
variety of schemata and contextual clues to accurately
interpret oral messages. Phonological signals such as stress,
pause, and intonation; lexico-grammatical signals, lexical
phrases, and word order; and higher level organizing
elements that we find in conversational structures are all
critical in signaling information to the listener.
37. Bibliography
Book: Celce-Murcia, M. & Olshtain, E. (2000): Discourse and Context in Language
Teaching. A guide for Language Teachers. Chapter 6.
Editor's Notes
Listening involves two processes that are defined as top-down and bottom-up. You're going to listen to something now, and then we'll analyse these questions.
After listening: The first questions correspond to a top-down process (the context of the listening situation, general information) and the second questions refer to bottom-up processes (they refer to details of the listening situation)
a Top-down process involves schematic knowledge, which is background information and knowledge about how discourse is organized. It also involves contextual knowledge that refers to understanding the specific listening situation. All these knowledge is filtered through pragmatic knowledge in order to interpret the input.
The bottom-up process involves specific knowledge about the language system.
The interaction between the top-down and bottom-up processes is crucial to Speech reception.
For L2 students, the bottom-up process is not automatic and can generate several problems. To compensate this, students can use different listening strategies and metacognition.
These are strategies that we can teach in the classroom. Some of them are related to metacognition.
This is an example of one of the previous strategies. We can help learners WITH pre listening activities in which they can predict what they are going to listen to. Using visual material is a way of doing this.