LISTENING

This is not a type of listening:

• Listening for gist

• Listening for specific information

• Listening in detail

• Implicit listening

It is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

• Listening

• Speaking

• Writing

• Reading

This is not part of the differences between Listening and Hearing:

• Hearing is with the senses. Listening is conscious.

• Listening requires voluntary attention. Hearing solely depends on the ears

• The listener is actively working. Everyone can hear without deliberate effort.

• Listening is the first stage of hearing.

You have heard an audio about a lecture of a Doctor talking about the symptoms and posible aftereffects of the COVID-19 and one of the listening comprehension questions is "How does the speaker feel about the COVID-19"? It belongs to...

• Listening for gist

• Listening in detail

• Listening for specific information

• Inferential listening

This characteristic of spoken English involves leaving out a sound. E.g. word-final /t/ in ‘first light’ is often pronounced /fɜ:s laɪt/

• Elision

• Assimilation

• Intrusion

• Pitch range

It refers to the exposure learners have to authentic language in use and that can come from the teacher, other learners, and the environment around the learners

• Audiolisguism

• Natural approach

• Input

• Listening for gist

Choose all the right statements:

• Listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the learner. Without understanding input at the right level, any learning simply cannot begin.

• Spoken language provides a means of interaction for the learner. Because learners must interact to achieve understanding

• Authentic spoken language presents a challenge for the learner to understand language as native speakers actually use it.

• Listening skills are as important as speaking skills because people cannot communicate face-to-face unless both types of skills are developed together.

According to the characteristics of the message, delivery, listener and environment, Which is not a barrier for listening?

• Information overload: too much information coming at you.

• Personal Concerns: when we are absorbed in our own thoughts and concerns.

• Rate of Speech and Thought: Most people speak at a rate of 125 words per minute. As a listener you are able to filter 700 words a minute. If we can process so many more words than we actually hear, a mental lag can occur.

• The language: a foreign language is difficult to understand and causes trouble understand it.

It is the input which is more complex than learners' current proficiency and stretches the boundaries of their current knowledge.

• Roughly tuned input

• Finely tuned input

It is related to

learners' present understanding

level and associated to what they

are already familiar with

• Roughly tuned input

• Finely tuned input