LISTENING

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Listening is receiving
language through the
ears. Listening
involves identifying the
sounds of speech and
processing them into
words and sentences.
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Like
babies, we learn
this skill by
listening to
people who
already know
how to speak the
language.
 Importance of Listening Skill
Listening remains the most neglected aspect of
Language teaching. Listening is the most
important skill as it is the fastest developed skill
and makes easier the development of the other 3
skills.
Listening helps us to understand the world around
us and is one of the necessary elements in
creating successful communication
 Listening Comprehension

Sound
Rost (2002) and Hamouda (2013) discrimination
defined listening comprehension as Grammatical
structure
an interactive process in which
Intonation
listeners are involved in /stress

constructing meaning. Listeners

comprehend the oral input through Previous
Knowledge
sound discrimination, previous Linguistic
clues
knowledge, grammatical structures, Non
linguistic
stress and intonation, and the other Clues

linguistic or non-linguistic clues.

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Listening Comprehension Process

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Understandin
Receiving Remembering Evaluating Responding
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The receiver The listener The listener

Hear the The information is provides
attempts to judges the
message being placed into long-term verbal or
figure out the content or
sent by a memory or it is nonverbal
meaning of the character of the
speaker forgotten feedback.
message message
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Bottom up Process
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Body Language
You start by listening for the
individual sounds and then join
these sounds together to make Grammar

syllables and words. These

words are then combined
together to form phrases, Pronunciation

clauses and sentences. Finally

the sentences combine Sounds

together to form texts or

conversations. Bottom up proccess
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Top Down Process

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Top Down
Process

Top-down listening means

Background
making as much use as you knowledge

can of your knowledge and

the situation. From your Situations

knowledge of situations, Contexts

contexts, texts,
conversations, phrases and Texts

sentences, you can

understand what you hear.
Conversations