Teaching LIstening

Listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the learner.

• True

• False

In teaching listening, we are suggested to teach both bottom-up and top-down processing skills as they both play important, but different, roles in listening.

• True

• False

Below are the roles of a teacher in the listening class:

• To actively guide learners through the process of listening.

• To monitor students' listening difficulties.

• To provide maximum opportunities for students' involvement in the listening lesson.

• To develop a better awareness of how to listen

Which of the following is the common problem in teaching listening.

• Materials and teaching often tend to test listening rather than teach it.

• Do not practice the kind of listening that takes place in real life.

• Using authentic listening materials.

• Focus on strategies.

Which one is the view of top-down listening?

• According to this view, phonemic units are decoded and linked together to form words, words linked together to form phrases, phrases are linked together to form utterances, and utterances are linked together to form complete, meaningful sentences. In other words, the process is linear, with meaning derived as the last step of process.

• This view suggests that listener actively constructs the original meaning of the speaker using incoming sounds as clues. In this process, the listener uses prior knowledge of the context and situation within which the listening takes place to make sense of what he or she hears.

Which one is the view of bottom-up listening?

• According to this view, phonemic units are decoded and linked together to form words, words linked together to form phrases, phrases are linked together to form utterances, and utterances are linked together to form complete, meaningful sentences. In other words, the process is linear, with meaning derived as the last step of process.

• This view suggests that listener actively constructs the original meaning of the speaker using incoming sounds as clues. In this process, the listener uses prior knowledge of the context and situation within which the listening takes place to make sense of what he or she hears.

Different listening purpose (for example listening to a news broadcast and listening to an instruction) doesn't involve different processes and strategies.

• True

• False

What is a "reciprocal" listening?

• It is when listener is required to take part in the interaction while listening.

• It is when listener is listening to a monologue and has no opportunity of answering back.

Listening to a podcast is different from listening to an instruction.

• True

• False

What is a "non-reciprocal" listening?

• It is when listener is required to take part in the interaction while listening.

• It is when listener is listening to a monologue and has no opportunity of answering back.