TSL3103: Linking

Theory to Practice
Week 1:
Listening Strategies
(Annathasia, Catherine, Patricia, Vanessa)

Outline
The framework
Top-down and bottom-up strategies
4 basic steps in listening strategies
Activities

Taps into
background
knowledge

Topdown

Listenin
g
Strategi
es

Bottomup

Relies on the
language in the
message
(grammar&
vocabulary)

Top-down and bottom-up

strategies
Top-down
Is listener- based
Taps into background
knowledge
Activates a set of
expectation for the listeners

listening for the main idea

predicting
drawing inferences
summarizing

Bottom-up
Is text-based
Relies on the language
listening for specific details
recognizing cognates
recognizing word-order
patterns

4 basic steps in listening

strategies
Figure out
the purpose

Activate background
knowledge

Attend to
the relevant
input
Select the
appropriate
strategy(ies)

Strategies can be used

simultaneously.
Check and
monitor
comprehens
ion

Activities
Problem solving based on mini-conversations
Steps
Before listening to the conversations, a chart is given to the
students and they have to study the chart first.
Students then cross out irrelevant clues while listening to the mini
conversations.
Students discuss, share opinions and fill out the chart.
The teacher reads aloud the conversations again and check the
answers with the students.

Note taking skills/ Dictation

Identifying main ideas
Songs