Can you tell me about strategies to develop listening skills?

The way to become a better listener is to practice "active listening." This is where you make a conscious effort to hear not only the words that another person is saying but, more importantly, try to understand the complete message being sent.In order to do this you must pay attention to the other person very carefully.
You cannot allow yourself to become distracted by whatever else may be going on around you, or by forming counter arguments that you'll make when the other person stops speaking. Nor can you allow yourself to get bored, and lose focus on what the other person is saying.
All of these contribute to a lack of listening and understanding:
listening for the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences, summarizing, Bottom-up strategies are text based; the listener relies on the language in the message, that is, the combination of sounds, words, and grammar that creates meaning. Bottom-up strategies include listening for specific details ,recognizing cognates.

Listening strategies are techniques or activities that contribute directly to the comprehension and recall of listening input. Listening strategies can be classified by how the listener processes the input.

Top-down strategies are listener based; the listener taps into background knowledge of the topic, the situation or context, the type of text, and the language. This background knowledge activates a set of expectations that help the listener to interpret what is heard and anticipate what will come next. Top-down strategies include:

listening for the main idea
predicting
drawing inferences
summarizing


Arisa 046 4EN

I think it's better to encourage student to listen to authentic language such as news that is available to them either consciously or subconsciously. Then teach student some strategies such as predicting, using context as a clue, concentrating to hear not just to listen. You can also teach listening by using bi-modal presentation of the English material, using audio and text simultaneously, such as audio transcription, captioning.



Sirorat 4EN 042

Listening strategies are techniques or activities that contribute directly to the comprehension
and recall of listening input. Listening strategies can be classified by how the listener processes
the input. Top-down strategies are listener based; the listener taps into background knowledge
of the topic, the situation or context, the type of text, and the language. This background
knowledge activates a set of expectations that help the listener to interpret what is heard
and anticipate what will come next. Top-down strategies include listening for the main idea,
predicting, drawing inferences, summarizing.

Kanokwan 006 4EN

These are Top down, Bottom up and Meta-cognitive.
1. Top down are listener based; the listener taps into background knowledge of the topic,
the situation or context, the type of text, and the language.
This background knowledge activates a set of expectations that help the listener to interpret
what is heard and anticipate what will come next.
Top-down strategies include:
--listening for the main idea
--Predicting
--drawing inferences
--summarizing
2. Bottom up is text based. The listener relies on the language in the message
(sounds, words, and grammar that creates meaning)
Bottom-up strategies include:
--listening for specific details
--Recognizing cognates
--Recognizing word-order patterns
3. Strategic listeners also use meta-cognitive strategies to plan, monitor, and evaluate their listening.
--They plan by deciding which listening strategies will serve best in a particular situation.
--They monitor their comprehension and the effectiveness of the selected strategies.



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