Listening
Week 1
Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
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Understand the Importance of Listening
2
Identify the Listening Challenges
3
Learn Strategies to Overcome Listening Challenges
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Understanding the
Importance of Listening
Time Spent Communicating
45%
Listening
Not Communicating
30%
• To avoid misunderstanding
• Ensure accurate understanding of points
and ideas.
Communicating
70%
Adler, R., Rosenfeld, L. and Pro
ctor,
R.
(2001)
Interplay: the process of interpe
rsonal co mmunicating (8th e dn)
, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
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Listening Challenges
Do you understand everything they said?
Listener’s limited vocabulary / Unfamiliar
with the language
Talking pace of the speaker
Background noise
A lack of knowledge on the topic
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Strategies to Overcome
Listening Challenges
Strategies
1. Predicting Content
2. Note-Taking
3. Listening for Gist
4. Detecting Signposts
Predicting Content
• Depending on the context, you can often predict the kind of words
and style of language the speaker will use.
• Our knowledge of the world helps us anticipate the kind of information
we are likely to hear.
• When we predict the topic of a talk or a conversation, all the related
vocabulary stored in our brains is 'activated' to help us better
understand what we're listening to.
Watch the video in the next slide.
Let’s say this is the 3rd
lecture, what can you predict
from the teacher?
How is he/she going to start the lesson?
• Bare in mind that this is the 3rd lecture
Welcome the audience?
Introduce himself/herself?
Recap?
What else?
Did you predict it correctly?
How to predict the content
if you are taking listening
test?
Skim through the questions
Try to predict what kind of information
you need to listen out for.
Eg: A question beginning 'How many..?’
Probably require you to listen for a
specific number or quantity.
TASK
Listening Practice 1