1. LISTENING AS COMPREHENSION
AND LISTENING AS ACQUISITION
MARAA. GABRIEL
Lecturer
Graduate Studies, Masters in Education,
Major in English Language Teaching
Panpacific University North Philippines
gabriel_mara24@yahoo.com

2. Listening is the ability to accurately receive
and interpret messages in the communication
process.
It is a key to all effective communication,
without the ability to listen effectively
messages are easily misunderstood –
communication breaks down and the sender of
the message can easily become frustrated or
irritated.

3. HEARING LISTENING
Perceiving words and sounds
Making sense of sounds
Perceiving and understanding the words
Noticing tone of voice, inflexion, volume
Noticing mood of the speaker
Keeping mind clear of distractions
Noticing nonverbal cues, including body
language, facial expressions, distance
between people
Perception (and sorting out)
of sounds and voices
Applied cognition (Perceiving, paying
attention, reasoning and remembering
messages)
“I hear it” “I get it”

4. Comprehension
• the action or capability of understanding
something.
Acquisition
• is the development of a new skill,
practice, or way of doing things.

5. Listening is not just being polite and can add a great deal of
value for the listener. You can also get a lot done.
Great leaders, coaches and facilitators are also great
listeners.
1. Building trust
2. Credibility
3. Support
4. Getting things done
5. Information
6. Exchange
Why should we listen?

6. Listening Skills and Strategies
The comprehension process (listening process)
is constituted by some simultaneous, interactive
operations.These operations are made up of various
sub processes (recognizing words, recalling relevant
schemata, etc.), the skills.

7. When the comprehension process breaks
down, the listener becomes aware of the need for
repair and seeks an appropriate strategy for
comprehension. At lower proficiency levels the
urge to translate is so natural that is
recommendable to explicitly encourage students to
avoid it.

8. Types of Skills/Strategies
1.Metacognitive strategies involve planning, monitoring,
and evaluating comprehension.
A.They plan by deciding which listening strategies
will serve best in a particular situation.
B.They monitor their comprehension and the
effectiveness of the selected strategies.
C.They evaluate by determining whether they have
achieved their listening comprehension goals and whether
the combination of listening strategies selected was an
effective one.

9. 2. Cognitive strategies are used to
manipulate information. eg. Rehearsal,
organization, summarization, etc.
3. Socioaffective strategies are important
when the listening is two way and meaning
can be negotiated between speaker and
listener. eg. Cooperative learning,
negotiation of meaning, etc.
.

10. Top-down strategies are listener based; the
listener taps into background knowledge of the
topic, the situation or context, the type of text,
and the language.
 listening for the main idea
 predicting
 drawing inferences/taking notes
 summarizing

11. Bottom-up strategies are text based; the
listener relies on the language in the
message, that is, the combination of
sounds, words, and grammar that creates
meaning.
 listening for specific details
 recognizing word sounds
 recognizing word-order patterns

12. Some Ways to Get Students to Listen
Listening Strategies Listening Skills
Say it Once/Dictation(In Instruction) Students become attentive and alert
during instructions
Turn andTalk(Pair-and-Share) Students tend to become
comprehendible and critical thinkers
while the teacher is discussing
something
Student Hand Signals Students become vigilant, curious and
critical thinkers
Pay Attention, Pause, Paraphrase Students become attentive and alert as
well.They become constructivists during
the activity.
Taking Down Notes & Creating
Questions
Students are sensitive about the topic.
They become rational or wise.
Cooperative Learning Active listening is in it thus, students
tend to become sensible and functional.

13. “The most basic and powerful way to
connect to another person is to listen. Just
listen. Perhaps the most important thing
we ever give each other is our attention.”--
Anonymous

14. LISTENING AS COMPREHENSION
AND LISTENING AS ACQUISITION