Vocabulary
Listening Comprehension
Challenges
The Listening Process
Assessment
100
Chunks
What is processing language input through pieces rather than by each word.
100
Redundancies
What is repeating information to give the learner another chance to understand and process information.
100
Background noise and/or distractions
What is What is distractions that language learners prefer to avoid when learning to listen.
100
The First Stage of the Listening Process
What is recognition of target language.
100
Recall
What is an activity in which students write all that is remembered from an oral or written text.
200
Recombinations
What is materials made to incorporate grammatical structures and vocabulary that students have already learned.
200
Receptive
What is a language skill that requires the learner to make meaning from oral language in a conversation.
200
Top-down processing
What is when students use their background knowledge to understand anecdotes as a whole.
200
Meaning Support
What is sounds, pictures, and other material to aid students in understanding.
200
Inference Question
What is a question in which the student must understand material in order to answer it. Cannot be answered by simply repeating.
300
Intonation Patterns
What is rising and falling of the tone of voice when speaking.
300
Social distance
What is what causes English learners to have less opportunities to improve listening abilities.
300
Context
What is background information relating to material that learners listen to or read.
300
Cognates
What is words related in structure and meaning to others in another language.
300
Dictation
What is the process of students writing down a passage in the target language read by the teacher.
400
Narrow Listening
What is listening to the same short text several times.
400
Stephen Krashen
What is the theorist who believed listening is the most important learning ability.
400
Bottom-Up Processing
What is sounding out each word and trying to understand what is said or read by processing each word and sound.
400
At this stage, learners start to recognize specific words, short phrases, and sentence boundaries. (Please tell title of stage.)
What is recognition of phrase boundaries.
400
The purest way to assess learners' listening abilities.
What is observation.
500
Targeted Input
What is incorporating listening and vocabulary materials to the vocabulary and structures students are learning to use in writing and speaking.
500
Sociocultural perspective
What is the perspective in which conversational partners co-construct the meaning of the conversation.
500
Top-Down Processing
What is trying to understand what is heard or read by as a whole.
500
In this stage, preparation, meaning support, and re-listening are imperative to the learner. (Please tell title of stage.)
What is listening for the gist.
500
Tell at least two techniques for assessing listening.
What is popsicle sticks, smiley faces, thumbs up/thumbs down.
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