Did you hear what I said?

Robin Walker
Trinity Trainer, Spain

www.englishglobalcom.com
robin@englishglobalcom.com

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1.  What happens when we listen?

2.  Listening – teaching basics

3.  Listening for content

4.  Listening for language

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

anticipation
bottom-up
contextual~clues
extensive~listening
intensive~listening
listening
listening~for~specific~information
negotiation~of~meaning
prior~knowledge
recognition
segmentation
top~down

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

a) Bottom-up processing
•  segmentation
•  recognition

  contextual clues

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

The answers my friend

are blowing in the wind

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

a)  Bottom-up processing b) Top-down processing

•  segmentation •  prior knowledge
•  recognition
 contextual clues
 anticipation

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

c) Negotiation of meaning What do you

mean?
•  listeners seeking clarification
•  listeners signalling understanding
•  speakers seeking confirmation Yeah, yeah

Do you see
what I’m
getting at?

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

d) Listening for content e) Listening for language

(real life) (classrooms)
•  extensive (gist) •  key language items
  vocabulary
•  specific information
  grammar
•  intensive
  pronunciation
•  word-by-word decoding
•  learning to listen

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1. What happens when we listen?

Feature of listening Order
a) anticipation 5th
b) bottom-up 1st
c) contextual clues 4th
d) extensive listening 9th
e) listening for specific information 10th
f) negotiation of meaning 8th
g) prior knowledge 7th
h) recognition 3rd
i) segmentation 2nd
j) top-down 6th

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1.  What happens when we listen?

2.  Listening – teaching basics

3.  Listening for content

4.  Listening for language

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening – teaching basics

2.1 Time – length of recording

2.2 Grade – difficulty of recording
2.3 Techniques – teaching listening
a)  How many playings?
b)  Stop recording if Ss ask?
c)  Students listen in pairs/gps or individually?
d)  Students can see the text / script?

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening – teaching basics

2.4 Classroom procedure for listening

a)  before–listening activities
b)  during–listening activities
c)  after–listening activities

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening – teaching or testing?

2.4 Classroom procedure for listening

a) before–listening activities
–  activating prior knowledge
–  using contextual clues
–  pre-teaching key vocabulary
–  predicting possible contents / outcomes
–  clarifying task / listening style

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening – teaching or testing?

2.4 Classroom procedure for listening

b) during–listening activities
–  completing diagrams
–  making notes
–  stopping / replaying as requested / necessary
–  stopping and asking what will happen next
–  stopping and getting Ss to test each other

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening – teaching or testing?

2.4 Classroom procedure for listening
c) after–listening activities
–  Check understanding
–  Responding to the content

–  Mini-dictation of section that was especially difficult

–  Reading and listening
–  Reading script then closing books and listening

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1.  What happens when we listen?

2.  Listening – teaching basics

3.  Listening for content

4.  Listening for language

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

3. Listening for content (real life & classroom)

3.1 Extensive listening

Extensive =
listening for
leisure

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening for content

Extensive listening =
2.1 Extensive listening a preliminary hearing of a recording
to identify the main points.
(Field 2008)

Pulse 3
© MacMillan Education
Assessing English language since 1938
 Did you hear what I said?

2. Listening for content Extensive =

preliminary
2.1 Extensive listening listening for
main ideas
(Field 2008)

Pass Trinity 5-6

© Black Cat

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

3. Listening for content

3.2 Listening for specific
information

Pulse 3
© MacMillan Education

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

3. Listening for content

3.2 Listening for
specific information

Pulse 3
© MacMillan Education

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

3. Listening for content

•  extensive
•  specific information
•  intensive   instructions

  surveys & quizzes

  Chinese whispers

  dictogloss

Assessing English language since 1938

 ‘Mind the gap’

3. Listening

Dictogloss
English File 3
Intermediate Plus
File 3B

Assessing
Professional Development English language since261938
I love ‘Mind
this the
photo,
gap’ even though I look a bit
strange
3. Listeningin a dress that was too big and a
coat that was too small! But it’s the way
that my grandfather and I are looking at
each other that I love about it.
Dictogloss
English File 3
Intermediate Plus
File 3B

Assessing
Professional Development English language since271938
 Did you hear what I said?
3. Listening for content (summary / sequence)

•  prior knowledge
•  key vocabulary
before listening
•  anticipation

•  extensive listening
•  listening for specific information while listening
•  intensive listening

•  responding to the text – after listening

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

1.  What happens when we listen?

2.  Listening – teaching basics

3.  Listening for content

4.  Listening for language

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

4. Listening for Language

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

4. Listening for language

4.1 Segmentation (Field 2008)

Pass Trinity 5-6

© Black Cat 2011

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

4. Listening for language (classroom)

4.1 Segmentation (Field 2008)

1.  [8] If she asks, I’ll tell her everything.

2.  [9] What’ll you do if they don’t arrive.
3.  [4] Ik begript het niet.
4.  [9] Aa divven knaa wot gansi te wear, man.

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

4. Listening for language (classroom)

4.2 Recognition (Field 2008)

a)  minimal pairs (ice/eyes)

b)  Bingo (sheep, ship; call, called; thin, thinner)
c)  Extrapolation – L1 cognates (chocolate,
average, favourite, Cadiz)

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

4. Listening for language

4.3 Word-by-word

Assessing English language since 1938

 Did you hear what I said?

5. What can you remember?

anticipation
bottom-up
contextual~clues
extensive~listening
intensive~listening
listening
listening~for~specific~information
negotiation~of~meaning
prior~knowledge
recognition
segmentation
top~down

Assessing English language since 1938

Did you hear what I said?

Robin Walker
Trinity Trainer, Spain

www.englishglobalcom.com
robin@englishglobalcom.com

Assessing English language since 1938