Top-down & Bottom up

When you get your students to predict the content of a listening activity beforehand, you are helping them to develop their top-down processing skills.

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Bottom-up processing is making use of what we already know to help us predict the structure and content of the text, and getting a general overall impression of the message.

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When designing a listening task, it is important to give learners a clear purpose so that it does not seem a memory test.

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Top-down is what we do in class most of the time since we use background information to make predictions before we listen to a recording.

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Teachers should not play the audio as many times as needed since that may take too much time from class.

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In order to conduct an effective listening activity, the teacher should set the task before playing the audio. 

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