Listening Strategies-Problem Solving

What can I first do when I hear an unknown word during listening?

• A: I stop listening immediately and look that word up from a dictionary.

• B: I wait until the recording is over, then I look it up.

• C: I give up, there is no point in trying to understand if there are unknown words in the listening.

• D: I use the words that I already know to deduce the meaning of the word that I don't know.

2. What can I do when I hear an unknown word during listening?

• A: Obviously, this is an extremely difficult listening above my level. I give up.

• B: I use the tone of the speaker to deduce whether the unknown word has a positive or negative connotation.

• C: I ask my classmate for help.

• D: I ask my teacher to stop the recording and clarify all the unknown words in it.

3. If it is a fill-in-the-blanks type of task, what can I do before I start listening?

• A: First I read the questions very carefully to decide which parts of speech I need (noun, adjective etc.) in each blank.

• B: First I read the questions very carefully and try to translate every single word into Turkish.

• C: It is better to read the questions after the recording starts.

• D: If the questions have blanks in them, they are impossible to understand anyway. I don't waste any time trying to read them.,

4. What is the easiest way to understand the gist of a listening text?

• A: Listening to the recording AT LEAST twice really carefully.

• B: Making sure that I know the Turkish equivalents of every single word in the recording.

• C: Sparing at least a year to improve my listening comprehension skills.

• D: Understanding the context and the relationship between the speakers by reading the instructions and the questions before the recording starts.

5. How can the background noise affect my listening comprehension?

• A: It makes it difficult to hear the speakers, so I can't comprehend the listening easily.

• B: It makes it easier to understand the context (i.e. where are the speakers?) and prepares me for real life listening.

• C: It is the proof that shows the recording hasn't been prepared professionally.

• D: I can answer the questions just by listening to the background noise.

6. What can I do when I hear an unknown word during the listening?

• A: I can use the gist of the listening text to guess the meaning of the unknown word.

• B: I start believing that it is going to be impossible to fully comprehend the listening text.

• C: I stop the recording and look the unknown word up in an online dictionary.

• D: I stop the recording and try to guess the meaning of the unknown word.

7. What can I do when I hear an unknown word during the listening?

• A: This is a sign that the listening is incredibly difficult for me, I give up.

• B: I stop listening because I am not going to understand it anyway.

• C: I guess the meaning of the unknown word by using my own experience and existing knowledge about the topic.

• D: I wait for the recording to end. Then, I look the word up and start listening to the recording once more.

8. What is the best strategy to adopt when I hear an unknown word during the listening?

• A: Using the words that I already know to guess the meanings of the words that I don't know.

• B: Using the tone of the speaker to deduce whether an unknown word has a positive or negative connotation.

• C: Using my own experience and world knowledge to guess the meaning of the unknown word.

• D: Choosing the best deduction strategy depending on the context of the listening text, task type and my learning preference.

9. What can I do when I realise that I misunderstood some of the important parts in the listening?

• A: I stop listening.

• B: It is going to be impossible to understand the rest of the listening anyway, I get demoralized.

• C: I keep listening and try to correct the points that I have previously misunderstood.

• D: I stop the recording and start listening from the very beginning.

10. When I guess the meaning of an unknown word, how can I understand if my guess is correct or not?

• A: I take the rest of the listening into consideration and ask myself if my guess makes sense or not.

• B: It doesn't matter if my guess is correct or not. Since I don't have any other alternatives, I try to answer the question based on my best guess.

• C: I don't waste any time trying to guess the meanings of the unknown words in a listening task.

• D: If there are any unknown words in a listening task, it is impossible to understand it, so I give up.,