The document discusses listening as a complex cognitive process and skill. It explains that listening involves both bottom-up processing of sounds and words as well as top-down processing using background knowledge to understand meaning. The document also discusses factors that can cause difficulties in listening and strategies teachers can use to help students develop effective listening skills and raise awareness of their own listening processes.

1. Teaching Listening Understanding the Listening Process

3. Is there a difference between hearing and listening?

4. What does it involve? IMAGES WORDS SOUNDS CONCEPTS SYNTAX SCHEMA MESSAGE MEANING FEELINGS RESPONSE REMEMBERING INTERPRET VOCABULARY FOCUS GUESSING ATTENTION CONTEXT CHUNKS ATTITUDE

5. An Activity To Understand Language Processing Monitoring Your Own Listening Processes

8. Christine Goh (2000), A cognitive perspective on language learners' listening comprehension problems(pp 8 of course pack)

9. What does it involve? Cognitive Processes

16. What factors could cause difficulties in listening? Download a copy of Handout 1 from Lesson 3 in our course website. Read through the list of listening problems described by the students. Discuss in your groups and fill in column 2 and 3.

17. LEARNER DIFFICULTIES lN LISTENING 1.I have trouble catching the actual sounds. 2. I have to understand every word; if I miss something, I feel I am failing and get worried and stressed. 3. I can understand people if they talk slowly and clearly; I can't understand fast, natural native-sounding speech. 4. I need to hear things more than once in order to understand. 5. I find it difficult to 'keep up'with all the information I am getting, and cannot think ahead or predict. 6. lf the listening goes on a long time I get tired, and find it more and more difficult to concentrate. @ Cambridge University Press 1996

19. Social / Interpersonal Purpose Transactional Purpose A beginner driver listening to instructions given by instructor. Listening to a friend sharing her problems

28. EL SYLLABUS 2010 Teaching Listening and Viewing Implications for Teaching: Outcomes, Focus Areas and Aims

33. Listening is an active, purposeful process of making sense of what we hear. It requires appropriate listening and viewing attitudes and behaviour and applying appropriate strategies and skills to process meaning from texts.