Listening skills

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LISTENING SKILLS

Language abilities that students must develop in order to maximize their listening comprehension.

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LEVEL 1: RECEIVING

The activities involved should determine the individual student’s ability to receive words, details, main ideas and to summarize

Example Activity:

Restating of sentences

LEVEL 2: AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION (INSTRUCTION TO DISTINGUISH SOUNDS

The students must be able to distinguish sounds from one another.

Example:

The teacher will read a poem wherein students are asked to take note of the words which end in d, b l, m and n.

LEVEL 3: ATTENDING TO A MESSAGE

(TEACHING STUDENTS TO PAY ATTENTION)

Guidelines:1.Listen to the sentence that tells what the

subject is. Pick out the most important details.

2.Note the words which tell direction such as north, south, east, etc.

3.Listen for words that signal order such as first, second; and to words and, but, yet, because which indicate how ideas are related with each other.

LEVEL 4: BUILDING EFFERENT LISTENING ACTIVITIES

Efferent Listening refers to behaviors used to understand speaker’s meaning, categorize information, monitor one’s own comprehension during listening, ask questions for clarification, follow sequential ideas, and take notes.

Students must be able to outline, note main points or phrases and create semantic maps.

LEVEL 5: BECOMING ACTIVE LISTENERS

LEVEL 6: LISTENING APPRECIATIVELY, AESTHETICALLY AND REFLECTIVELY

• Students form mental images, make comparison to their lives and become engrossed in personal benefits being received.

• They reflect on insight or solution to a dilemma.

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CONVERSATIONAL LISTENING

It involves the ability to:

• Retain chunks of language of different lengths for short periods

• Discriminate among the distinctive sounds of the target language

• Recognize stress patterns of words

• Recognize rhythmic structure of English

• Recognize function of stress and intonation to signal the information structure of utterances

• Recognize reduced forms of verbs

• Distinguish word boundaries

• Recognize typical word order patterns in target language

• Recognize vocabulary used in core conversational topics

• Detect keywords

• Recognize grammatical word classes

• Detect sentence constituents

ACADEMIC LISTENINGIt involves the ability to:

• Identify purpose and scope of literature

• Identify topic and follow topic development

• Identify role of discourse markers in signaling structure of lecture

• Infer relationships

• Recognize key lexical terms relating to subject/topic

• Recognize function of intonation to signal information structure

• Detect attitude of speaker towards the subject matter

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