This document discusses listening skills and their development. It outlines the listening process, sub-skills of listening like distinguishing sounds and understanding meaning. It also discusses developmental activities teachers can use, such as dictation, following instructions based on a map, and noting details of a program. The document differentiates between types of listening like casual, focused, intensive and extensive listening. Overall, the document provides information on developing effective listening skills through understanding the listening process, sub-skills, and activities.

2. Presented by,
Name: Jayasree P.S
Batch: English
Roll no: 7
College: MGUCTE
Muvattupuzha

3.  Listening process
 Sub-skills of listening
 Developmental activities
 Types of listening

4.  Listening is hearing and perceiving a
message. Listening is a mental function.
 Listening process has three stages: hearing,
processing and evaluating.
 The objectives of listening are related to the
level of knowledge , application and aptitude.

5.  Sub-skills of listening are manifested in terms
of behaviour.
 Sub-skills of listening may be classified into
two classes. They are listening for perception
and listening for understanding meaning.

6.  Listening for sound perception have the
following sub-skills:
1. distinguishing between the sounds of L1 and
L2.
2. understanding the tone, melody, rhythm,
stress and intonation of L2.
3. learning to speak a word before writing.
4. understanding the lack of concord between
pronunciation and spelling of words in
English.

7.  Listening for meaning have the following sub-
skills:
1. predicting the speaker’s main theme and
guessing the word he would use next.
2. understanding the collection of
words(adjectives, adverbs etc).
3. grasping the mood and import of the speaker.
4. understanding how the speaker develops his
idea logically and sequentially.

8.  Other sub-skills of listening are:
1. discriminating sounds in isolated word forms.
2. discriminating sounds in connected speech.
3. discriminating stress patterns within words.
4. recognizing stress variation in connected
speech.
5. recognizing the use of stress in connected
speech.

10.  The teacher should give enough exposure to
the learner to grasp the sound system of L2.
 with regard to English, the sound system
should be introduced much before the
graphics is introduced.
 While introducing vocabulary, the teacher
should be a model in his pronunciation, stress,
intonation.

11.  Speaking with gestures, eye contact and facial
expression will make learning more effective.
 The teacher can give instructions to the
learners to do some physical movements.
 Exercise on making objects can be given to
the learners.
 Dictation- the positive feature of dictation is
that it involves the learner, who become
actively involved with language.

12. Improve Your Listening Skills w ith Active Listening_low.mp4

13. In this activity a route map is used and
exercise designed to link the spoken
description with the map. Teacher can give the
learner instructions.

14. In this activity the learner is introduced to a
situation where a message is conveyed and the
learner has to jot down the message noting
important details of a program.

15. In this activity the learner listens the
commentary for specific information. In this
the learner uses background sounds for clues.

16. In this activity the learner have to make a
ground plan for the school fete. It is more
appropriate for learner at this level to mark
diagrams, maps, ground plans and flow charts
rather than pictures.

18.  Casual listening
 Focused listening
 Intensive listening
 Extensive listening

19.  Listening without any purpose in mind.
 E.g., listening to a radio while chatting to a
friend.

20.  Listening for a particular purpose to find out
some information.
 E.g., listening to someone explaining how to
operate a machine.

21.  Listening for details.
 E.g., understanding street directions.

22.  Listening to get only a general idea or gist of
some event.
 E.g., listening to some news item on the radio.

23. Effective Listening Skills_low.mp4