Listening Strategies

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

• hearing

• listening

• top-down strategy

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

Bottom-up strategy focuses on content

• True

• False

Top-down strategy happens when someone uses background information to predict the meaning of language they are going to listen to or read.

• True

• False

(a)   starts by recognizing phonemes, combining these into syllables, syllables into words, words into clauses

It is how the listener processes the input of listening

• Listening Strategies

• Top-down Strategy

• Bottom-up Strategy

• Listening