Listening activity outcomes

Listening to types of speech in different authentic contexts

Listening to everyday speech and interactions
Listening to and identifying single or multiple speakers
Listening to both planned and unplanned speech
Listening to monologue and dialogue in context
Using aids to listening such as pictures or diagrams.
Listening to and understanding questions
Listening for main idea and separating it from less significant or trivial detail
Listening for necessary details
Listening to increasingly more complex [and more quickly delivered] work
related messages
Managing dictagloss [dictation at normal speed with collaborative
reconstruction of text & correction]
Collaborative jigsaw [information gap] listening [shared group work
predicting what will be said next, filling text gaps, sharing information to
produce a joint text, & listening for logical connections]
Completing traditional dictation tasks and variations
Peer-focused listening [learner to learner as in an interview]
Completing cloze exercises for content listening
Responding to freeze frame technique with videos
Completing listening grid for positioning of text [identifying beginning,
middle & end]
Oral drilling and repetition [individual & choral] of parts of text listened to
Varying the of multiple listening or repetition of text
Responding to increased speeds of oral delivery