Listening Strategies

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

• Listening techniques

• Listening strategies

• Listening methods

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

• predicting

• recognizing cognates

• listening for main idea

• summarizing

It is a listening strategy that is text-based.

• bottom-up strategy

• listening

• hearing

• top-down strategy

This listening strategy is a listener-based.

• Top-down strategy

• Bottom-up Strategy

• Listening Strategy

• Listening

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

• listening for specific details

• drawing inferences

• recognizing word order patterns

• recognizing cognates

Which of the following BEST describes bottom-up strategy?

• controlled

• subjective

• objective

Bottom-up strategy focuses on content.

• True

• False

Top-down processing of language 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

• Bottom-up strategy

• Top-down strategy

• Listening