Types of Listening
Type of listening used when students need to grasp the overall meaning of a conversation.
What is Extensive Listening?
Processing sounds and decoding language from the smallest units.
What is Bottom-up processing?
Technique where students fill in the blanks while listening.
What is a Cloze Test?
Factor that may interfere with understanding if the speaker talks too fast.
What is Speech Rate?
Predicting what the speaker will say based on context clues.
What is Prediction?
Type of listening used when students focus on details and specific information.
What is Intensive Listening?
Using prior knowledge and context to understand a listening text.
What is Top-down processing?
Students listen to a passage and then answer multiple-choice questions.
What is Multiple Choice?
Type of noise that may affect listening comprehension during an assessment.
What is Background Noise?
Restating the main ideas of a listening text in your own words.
What is Summarizing?
Type of listening where students listen for specific information within a larger context.
What is Selective Listening?
Combining both bottom-up and top-down strategies to understand a text.
What is Interactive processing?
Technique where students arrange events in the order they are heard.
What is Sequencing?
Challenge students face when they are not familiar with the speaker's accent.
What is Accent Variation?
Focusing on key words and ignoring extra information.
What is Selective Attention?
Type of listening where students engage with authentic conversations to understand natural language use.
What is Interactive Listening?
Skill used to identify the speaker’s tone and attitude.
What is Inferencing?
Technique where students respond to open-ended questions based on what they heard.
What is Free Recall?
When students struggle because they miss key words or phrases.
What is Lexical Gap?
Using gestures and facial expressions to aid comprehension.
What is Non-verbal Cues?
Type of listening used to identify patterns and structures in spoken language.
What is Discriminative Listening?
Skill used to identify discourse markers and organization in speech.
What is Recognizing Cohesion?
Students listen to a recording and transcribe exactly what they hear.
What is Dictation?
When students lose track of meaning due to long or complex sentences.
What is Syntactic Complexity?
Listening to the same passage multiple times to improve comprehension.
What is Repetition?