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Towards Acquiring CC Through Listening-Zahraa Alabboodi
Towards Acquiring CC Through Listening-Zahraa Alabboodi
By:Zahraa Khudhair
Communication
language
Sending Receiving
Speaking listening
Writing Reading
What is the concept of the listening skill ?
One of the basic and effective skills in
communication process . It is intended to listen,
understand and explain and the listening process
includes three main steps as defined by (Scott,
1989), namely:
1. Receive audio content and ignore noise.
2. Pay attention to the audio content and focus
on what the speaker says.
3. Interpret the audio content and interact with it
so that the listener classifies the information,
compares and connects it with his cognitive
background.
What is the importantance of the listening ?
- The natural entrance to language learning and the correct way to acquire it, understanding
and thus production
- The earliest means of linguistic communication,where the human begins the stages of his linguistic
development by listening, then speaking
- A main tool for the learners
-The basic means for interaction
Reading
16%
Speaking
30% Writing
9%
Listening
45%
-Improve auditory habits through a series of exercises that included pronunciation drills, memorization of
prefabricated patterns and imitation of dialogues .
-The Audiolingual teaching methodology
-Listening comprehension = repeating, imitating and memorizing.
-Teaching methodologies
Focuses on processing spoken Discourse for functional purposes and
Perform tasks that focus on meaning, not form .
Negatively
Positively
Physical Obstacles:
External obstacles
.
1. Receive content - stay away Environmental Obstacles
from confusion
2. Attention to content - focus
3. Interpretation of content -
linking with prior knowledge
-Listeners’ background knowledge of cultural and non-verbal communicative factors will help them
construct its meaning as well as acknowledge differences between their own culture and that of the
target language so that possible misunderstandings can be avoided.
-Making learners strategically competent in their ability to comprehend oral input will foster their overall
communicative competence in the L2 .
Influence L2 listening instruction
Listening instruction is a pedagogic plan that focuses on four goals:
Four key areas in which research has provided insights into the teaching of L2 listening.
There are two complementary phonological processes that assist the listener:
Feature detection is the most fundamental bottom up listening process. Speech processing
research has shown that we have a wide range of phonetic feature detectors (specialized
synaptic networks) in our auditory cortex which enable us to decode speech into linguistic
units.
Metrical segmentation: refers to the use of stress and timing rules to segment incoming speech
into words, which are then used for lexical processing and meaning construction.
Listener status
The listener’s perceived status influences comprehension, participation, and value of input for
language acquisition. Engagement by the L2 user –assumption of an “active listening” role –
promotes acquisition of listening skills and strategies.
Strategy instruction
Researchers attempt to isolate approaches, decisions, and tactics that are associated with
“successful” (symmetrical, low-anxiety, positive affect) listening.
We Are blessed with two eARs ANd one mouth -
A consTAnt reminder thAT we should listen
AT leASt twice AS much AS we
tALk.
LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND