Listening Skill

Carla Peña Jaime Jara

May 29, 2015

What is listening?• It is the process of interpreting messages

(what the people say).

According to Nunan it is a secondary skill (receptive skill) but we do not have to confuse the word receptive with passive, because

a listener can be passive or active.

Nation and Newton (2009) suggest that Listening is the natural precursor to speaking; the early stages of language development in a person’s first language (and in naturalistic acquisition of other languages) are dependent on listening.

Types of listening skill

According to Nation and Newton (2009)

One-way listening

Two-way listening

Ways of processing the information

Bottom-up process

Top-down process

Types of listening activitiesListening to stories

Oral cloze

Picture orderin

gSame or different

Listen and

choose

Padded questions

Stages for listening activities

Pre-listening activities

Listening

Post-listening

Speech phenomena that makes listening difficult

Assimilation and Elision

Resyllabification

Reduced

forms

Sources of listening problems

According to Renandya and Farrel (2010)

● Speaking rate● Distraction● Unable to recognize words they knew● New vocabulary● Missing subquent input● Nervousness● Sentence complexity● Background knowledge● Anxiety and frustration● Unfamiliar pronunctiation

Strategies

According to Nation and Newton (2009)

Communicationstrategy

Learning

strategy

•Listening skill is already learned.

•Listening depends on speaking skill and the other way around.

Conclusion

References

Nation, I. S. P., & Newton, J. (2009). Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking. New York: Routledge.

Farrell, T., Renandya, D. (2010). ‘Teacher, the tape is too fast!’ Extensive listening in ELT. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Renandya, D., Richards, J. (2002). Methodology in Language Teaching An Anthology of Current Practice.  New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.