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1. Listening Skill
Carla Peña
Jaime Jara
May 29, 2015

2. What is listening?
• It is the process of interpreting messages
(what the people say).
According to Nunan it is a secondary skill (receptive skill) but we
do not have to confuse the word receptive with passive, because
a listener can be passive or active.
Nation and Newton (2009) suggest that Listening is the natural
precursor to speaking; the early stages of language development
in a person’s first language (and in naturalistic acquisition of
other languages) are dependent on listening.

3. Types of listening skill
According to Nation and Newton (2009)
One-way
listening
Two-way
listening

4. Ways of processing the information
Bottom-
up process
Top-down
process

5. Types of listening activities
Listening
to stories
Oral
cloze
Picture
ordering
Same or
different
Listen and
choose
Padded
questions

6. Stages for listening activities
Pre-listening
activities
Listening
Post-listening

7. Speech phenomena that makes
listening difficult
Assimilation
and Elision
Resyllabification
Reduced
forms

8. Sources of listening problems
According to Renandya and Farrel (2010)
● Speaking rate
● Distraction
● Unable to recognize words they knew
● New vocabulary
● Missing subquent input
● Nervousness
● Sentence complexity
● Background knowledge
● Anxiety and frustration
● Unfamiliar pronunctiation

9. Strategies
According to Nation and Newton (2009)
Communication
strategy
Learning
strategy

10. •Listening skill is already learned.
•Listening depends on speaking skill and the
other way around.
Conclusion

11. References
Nation, I. S. P., & Newton, J. (2009). Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking. New
York: Routledge.
Farrell, T., Renandya, D. (2010). ‘Teacher, the tape is too fast!’Extensive listening in
ELT. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Renandya, D., Richards, J. (2002). Methodology in Language Teaching An Anthology
of Current Practice. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.