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LISTENING &
SPEAKING
Identifying and integrating listening &
speaking skills
AN INTERACTIVE MODEL OF
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Involves 8 process of which they occur simultaneously :
macroskills
MICROSKILLS
Retain chunks of language of different lengths
in short-term memory
Discriminate distinctive sounds of English
Recognize English sound structure
Recognize reduced forms of words
Distinguish word boundaries, recognize the
core of words and interpret word order
patterns and their significance
Process speech at different rates of delivery
Process speech containing pauses, errors, corrections,
and other performance variables
Recognize grammatical word classes, systems,
patterns, rules, elliptical forms.
Detect sentence constituent and distinguish between
major and minor constituent.
Recognize that a particular meaning may be
expressed in different grammatical forms.
MACROSKILLS
Recognize cohesive devices in spoken discourse
Recognize the communicative function of utterances,
according to situation, participants, goals.
Infer situations, participants, goals using real-world
knowledge.
From events ideas, describe predicted outcomes, infer
links and connection between pages, deduce causes
and effects, and detect such relations as main idea,
supporting idea, new information, given information,
generalization, and exemplification.
Distinguish between literal and implied
meanings
Use facial kinesics, body language and other
non-verbal clues to decipher meanings.
Develop and use a battery of listening
strategy such as detecting keywords, guessing
the meaning of words from context appealing
for help and signaling comprehension.
reactive intensive responsive
Selective extensive
interactive
PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING
LISTENING SKILLS
Include a focus in an integrated-skills course
Use techniques that are intrinsically motivating
Utilize authentic language and context
Carefully consider the form of listeners’ responses
Encourage the development of listening strategies
Include both bottom-up and top-down listening
techniques
Speaking
imitative intensive responsive extensive (monologue)