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Summary of Principles for teaching listening skills - Coggle Diagram
Summary of Principles for teaching listening skills
Difference Between Hearing and Listening
Hearing is passive and requires no effort.
Listening is an active process involving understanding, interpreting, and responding.
Listening as an Active Process
Involves prediction, questioning, paraphrasing, and interpreting nonverbal cues.
Connects new information to prior knowledge.
Requires focus on the speaker and message.
Listening as Comprehension
Identifying purpose, tone, and emotions.
Differentiating facts from opinions.
Understanding main ideas and details.
Types of Listening
One-way listening: Transactional, focused on information transfer.
Two-way listening: Interactional, used for social communication.
Processing Approaches
Top-Down Processing: Using prior knowledge to predict meaning.
Bottom-Up Processing: Building meaning step by step from phonetics to full comprehension.
Teaching Implications
Balance meaning-focused listening (top-down) with language-focused learning (bottom-up).
Encourage both comprehension and linguistic accuracy.