Remedial

Instruction in
LISTENING
Prepared by:
04 MS. LUDIE S. MAHINAY
 “IT IS NOT THE
HEARING THAT
IMPROVES LIFE
BUT THE
LISTENING.”
 WHAT IS
LISTENING?
 Listening skill is an ability to actively hear and
understand messages in communication
process. It is important to develop this skill
because it helps individual to gain information.
 Hearing is just a physical process that allows
sounds to enter your ears.
 Listening is more than that, it involves paying
more attention and improving comprehension.
 Except for that fact, this skill is most neglected
that’s why we need remediation.
 Factors Affecting Students’
Listening Comprehension
 are mainly related to the type of
INTERNAL language input and tasks and
the context in which listening
FACTORS occurs

 refer to the learners’

characteristics, language EXTERNAL
proficiency, memory, age, FACTORS
gender, background
knowledge as well as aptitude,
motivation, and psychological and
physiological factors
 INTERNAL FACTORS
Problems in language proficiency (cover problems on phonetics and phonology like
1 phonetic discrimination, and phonetic varieties; problems in grammar; and
lexicological problems)

2 Poor background knowledge

3 Lack of motivation to listen

4 Psychological factors

5 Other internal factors (age, attention span, memory span,

reaction and sensitivity)
 EXTERNAL FACTORS
01
100
Speed of delivery and different accents of the speakers
90

80

02
70 The content and task of listening materials
60

50
03
40
Context - refers to the spatial-temporal location of the utterance, i.e. on the particular
time and particular place at which the speaker makes an utterance and the particular
30
time and place at which the listener hears or reads the utterance.
20
04
10 Co-text - another major factor influencing the interpretation of meaning. It refers to the
linguistic context or the textual environment provided by the discourse or text in which
a particular utterance occurs. Co-text constrains the way in which we interpret the
response.
 How to Improve Students’
Listening Comprehension?

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Teach Practice
pronunciation, Recognize Enrich
stress, and
sound stressed vocabulary
intonation of discrimination and
the critical , liaisons, and
unstressed
sounds of incomplete
plosives
words
English
 How to Improve Students’
Listening Comprehension?

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Teach Practice Improve Teach

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information predictin taking
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stated
 Thank you
for LISTENING!