Principles of Listening Skills

Expose students to different types of

Principles of Listening Skills listening.
Check Comprehension
The most common type of listening exercise in
Student responds physically many textbooks is listening for specific
to a especific command, the information.
student selects from
different alternatives ,or This usually involves catching concrete
can make a drawing form information including names,time and so on.
want he or she Heard, on
can answer questions, or
can takes notes from a Considering text difficulty and
lectura etc… authenticity
The students should exposure to
and practice with natural
Principles of
sounding language since spoken
Listening Skill. languages are very difficult and
different from written
Expose students to different types of language.Any discusión of
processing information. listening text probably needs to
deal with the issue of authentic
There are two types of processing
texts.
information:The bottom up and the
top down.In the first one the student
starts with the component parts such
as :words ,grammar and the likeand
Develop Listening Strategies
the other one is opossite .Students
start from their background In this principle are identify as
knowledge,general information based strategies that are used by
on previous learning and life successful listeners and they are Teach a variaty of tasks
experience the following: Since learners do the task as they
 Predicting listening,it is important that the
 Inferring task itself does not demand too
 Monitoring much production of the learner.If
for example a beginning level
 Clarifying
learner hears a story and is asked.
 Responding
 Evaluating