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LISTENING

SKILL Presented by, Name: Jayasree P.S

Batch: English

Roll no: 7

College: MGUCTE

Muvattupuzha

LISTENING SKILL

Listening process

Sub-skills of listening

Developmental activities

Types of listening

LISTENING PREOCESS

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.

SUB-SKILLS

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.

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.

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.

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.

DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES

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.

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.

Improve listening skill with active listening

Listening and following a route:

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.

Listening to a telephone call and writing message

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.

Listening to sports commentary and completing charts

In this activity the learner listens the

commentary for specific information. In this

the learner uses background sounds for clues.

Listening to instruction and making a ground plan

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.

Types of listening

Casual listening

Focused listening

Intensive listening

Extensive listening

Casual listening

Listening without any purpose in mind.

E.g., listening to a radio while chatting to a

friend.

Focused listening

Listening for a particular purpose to find out

some information.

E.g., listening to someone explaining how to

operate a machine.

Intensive listening

Listening for details.

E.g., understanding street directions.

Extensive listening

Listening to get only a general idea or gist of

some event.

E.g., listening to some news item on the radio.

Effective listening skills

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