Listening texts?
- Environment
- Content
- Delivery
Tell me examples about environment
- Language classroom
- Restaurants.cafes
3.government offices - Family. Home
Content:
- Entertainment
- Interest factor
- Cultural accessibility
- Density
- Language level
- Speech acts
- Discourse markers
Delivery:
- Accent
- Speed and number of speakers
- Length
- The quality of recordings
When we talk about content examples we mention interest factor, can you clear this point by adding more specific examples?
2. Entertainment
3. Cultural accessibility
4, discourse structure
5. Language level
- Personal interest like: hobbies, arts, food choices, clothing…
- Funny, enjoyable, lively conversations
- Your own cultural, community, personal experiences, society in general.
- Organization of a piece of text, cause and effect, problem-situation.
- Refers to content and delivery, grammar, vocabulary, sentences, formal and informal expressions, and sentence complexity.
Other than listening texts we have listening strategies:
- Cognitive
- Metacognitive
- Socio-affective
Talk more about listening strategies:
- Cognitive: used to complete immediate task.
Finding difficult words in a text
Inferring meaning
Practicing and analyzing to produce new knowledge - Metacognitive: learning in general, long term benefits.
Thinking about the process of learning
Planning and evaluating your own learning - Learners interaction with other speakers.
Interaction is a key to understanding a language and listening texts.
Asking questions to support understanding.
Give me other strategies good listeners use?
- Discriminating between sounds
- Coping with fast speech
- Processing stress and intonation differences
- Understand communicative functions
What does discriminating between sounds mean?
Pet,pot….
Coping with fast speech?
Ask the 5w
What detail you want to listen?
Processing stress and intonation differences.
How to cope with stress.
She said why you need to listen to intonation because there is meaning, when asking questions????(listening to intonation differences)
Understand communicative function
When someone is complaining, requesting……
Other strategies good listeners use:
- Discriminating between sounds
- Coping with fast speech
- Processing stress and intonation differences.
- Understand communicative functions
Listening and note taking:
- Listening to the recording
- Write( words- terms- expressions)
- Use listening strategies
- Understand(content and context)
- Practice
Tips:
- Prepare for the listening activity
- The passage gets more difficult as you process throughly
- Prepare for the types of questions- variety of questions
- Stay focused
5.(again) use predicting techniques - Use information in your brainstorming activity
What you should do if you find it difficult to concentrate on what is someone saying?
Try to repeat their words mentally as they say them will help to reinforce their message and will help you to stay focused.
Tips 2:
You need to expose yourself to listening environments to familiarize context, language use, and speech types.
Tip3?
4?
After listening reconstruct information orally, and in writing.
Practice practice practice
