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TEACHING LISTENING - Coggle Diagram
TEACHING LISTENING
1. ACTIVATION OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
It's objective is to improve listening comprehension
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Schema
It's an abstract representation of an experience
Scripts
Predictable use of language based on the context.
Top-down/Bottom-up processing
Top-down: prior knowledge
Bottom-up: Using information about sounds, word meaning, and discourse markers.
2. SYSTEMATIC PRESENTATION OF LISTENING
Listening for main Ideas
Details are less important
They only need to have a general idea of what they listen
What's the story about?
Listening for details
What/where/when, etc
Focus only on one detail of the conversation.
Listening and making inferences
Ask about aspects that aren't directly stated
Sometimes people don't say exactly and directly what they mean.
Students must have a purpose for listening
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Ask questions beforehand
3. STIMULATING INTEGRATION OF REAL-WORLD CULTURAL INFORMATION
The objective is to move beyond language as a set of sentences to the real world.
Keeping student's interest is key to learning
Instrumental motivation
Integrative motivation
Recycle topic from other lessons and expand them in a cultural context.
4. PRESENTATION OF EXTENSIVE LISTENING TASKS
The objective is to lead students to personalized speaking
Some programs focus on listening only
Other programs pair listening and speaking
It can be useful since we all need to be a listener and a speaker at some point.
ACTIVITIES
Two-way speaking tasks
One-way speaking tasks
Closed / open tasks