Listening Strategies Exercises

These are techniques or activities that contribute directly to the comprehension and recall of listening input.

• Listening techniques

• Listening strategies

• Listening methods

• Listening activities

Which of the following is NOT a top-down listening strategy?

• predicting

• listening for the main idea

• recognizing cognates

• summarizing

It is a listening strategy that is text-based; the listener relies on the combination of sounds, words and grammar that creates meaning.

• bottom-up strategy

• scanning strategy

• skimming strategy

• top-down strategy

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a strategic listener?

• They plan by deciding which listening strategies will serve best in a particular situations.

• They recognize every detail of sounds, words and grammar in the given text.

• They monitor their comprehension and the effectiveness of the selected strategies.

• They evaluate by determining whether they have achieved their listening comprehension goals and whether the combination of listening strategies selected was an effective one.

__________ involve planning, monitoring and evaluating their listening.

• metacognitive strategies

• metalanguage strategies

• metaphysical strategies

• metaculture strategies

These listening strategies are listener based; the listener taps into background knowledge of the topic, the situation or context, the type of text, and the language.

• skimming strategies

• scanning strategies

• bottom-up strategies

• top-down strategies

Which of the following is NOT a bottom-up listening strategy?

• listening for specific details

• recognizing word-order pattern

• drawing inferences

• recognizing cognates

Which of the following BEST describes bottom-up strategies?

• controlled

• opinionated

• subjective

• objective

Which of the following BEST describes top-down strategies?

• controlled

• contextualized

• subjective

• objective

Which of the following is NOT a listening strategy?

• metacognitive strategy

• top-down strategy

• bottom-up strategy

• contextualized strategy