A HISTORICAL SKETCH Myths and Misconceptions about Teaching

Listening Listening comprehension Is an interactive process

Spotlight in 1970s - TPR and Natural Listening is a "passive" skill is the psychomotor as the brain acts on the
Approach. Listening is a "one-way" process process of reciving impulses, bringing to
Vandergrif 2013 Listening is an individual process waves through the ear bear a number of
A good listener in L1 is a good listener in L2. Listening skills are acquired subconsciously and transmittting nerve different cognitive and
Flowerdew - students just "absorb" them impulses to the brain. affective mechanisms.
Strategies are needed to improve listening Listening equals comprehension
Listening and speaking should be taught
separately

Andrea Nayeli Medina Palafox

Nadia Montserrat Corona Muñoz
Listening is an active Through listening, we internalize linguistic information, without which we could
no produce language.
Joshua Jiménez Carro
Andrea Cano process
Eva Magali Vega Nava

1. Decaring auditory
sounds (raw speech)
Tasks for assessing listening: 2. Determining the
Distinguish between similars function of the speech
(I can go/ I can´t go) event
By Ss's responses 3. Activating schemata
(What time is it?) 4. Assigning literal
Selective tasks meanings.
(Verbal information)
Extensive activities
Assessment (dialogues) 5. Assigning intended
Unplanned, spontaneous, meaning
unconsciously judged by T 6. Determining the
Test demand for shoet- or long-
Deliberated, term memory.
conventionalized 7. Retaining essential Monologues
feedback, planned. information or meanings
1. Planned
2. Spontaneus
Listening
comprehension
*Begining level, Assessing
processess
*Intermediate level and
*Advanced level
listening in the
learners;
each may contain
classroom
botom-up, top-down and

Begining level

interactive excercises.
Types of Dialogues
1. Interpersonal
listeners:
Botom Up= Goal: Listening

spoken 2. Transactional

for Normal Sentence World

Order. language
Top-down= Goal:Listening

for Normal Sentence World

Teaching
Intermediate level

Order.
Interactive

Listening
listeners:
Botom Up= Goal:

Exercises=Following

Directions. techniques Clustering

Advanced level
Recognizing Fast Speech

Begining- Redundancy

Listening
Forms
listeners: Reduced forms
Botom Up= Goal: Identify
Top-down= Goal: Listen to

Identify the Speaker or the

Advanced Performance
Specific Points of Topic. variables
Information. Interactive Exercises:

Top-down= Goal: Find the Listen to Confirm Your

Main Idea of a Lecture Expectations.

Segment.
Interactive Exercises: Use
Incoming Details to
Determine the Accuracy of What makes
Predictions about Content. Include:
1. A focus on listening
listening difficult?
Principles for
Colloquial
2. Stimulating language
techniques Rate of Delivery
3. Authentic language teaching Stress, Rhythm,
and Intonation
and context
listening skills Types of Micro- and Interaction

4. Pre-, While classroom macro skills

and Post-
Listening listening
techniques
performance
Micro-skills
Interactive A top-down approach.
Those activities

By: which interaction -Retain chunks of language of different lengths

5. Check Reactive

Doing Ss - T / T - Ss are -Discriminate among the distintive sound of english

listening 7. Buttom-up Brief choral or implicited

Choosing comprehension individual drills -Recognize reduced forms of words

and top-down

Answering
6. Encourage the activities -distinguish word boundaries
Modeling MACRO

development of Recognize:
-Process speech a different rades of delivery

strategies Extensive -cohesive device

in spoken discourse -process pauses

Intensive Long activities -Communicative functions

-detect sentence constitues

Focusing on like dialogues -Infer situations using real-world

knowledge. recognize a particular meaning

components or lectures -Predict outcomes, infer links

between events, deduce causes

of discourse and effects, and detect such

Selective relations as main idea, supporting
idea.
By scanning
Key words Responsive -Distinguish between literal and

look forward iimplied meanings.

Demanding -Use facial, kinesic, body language,

Nonverbal cues to for specific

and other nonverbal clues to

responses to decipher meanings.

meaning Ss info.
-Develop and use a battery of

listening strategies: detecting key

Activate background words, the meaning of words from

context, apelling for help etc.

information