Listening and L2
My background
I need to provide more comprehensible imput, teach strategies to improve the listening skills.
Assisting listening skills
Using meaning-oriented tasks.
Focus on specific goals.
Focus on meaning and finding new important content in the L2.
Topic principal
Listening difficulties
Ur
Inability to link words in context
unskillful in using strategies to summarize heard information at the macro-level and micro-level.
Lacking exposure
Different accents, colloquial vocabulary.
Inability to skim information
redundancy, noise, and the inability to guess
Problems of sounds
pronunciation, rhythm, intonation and stress
Rixon
meaning in context, connected speech, language rythm.
Schema theory
Top-down processing.
Brain tries to find existing knowledge and assimilate new data.
Bottom-up processing
Movement of data from page to brain.
Listening process
Third stage
Listener is able to construct meaning, information can be transferred to the long-term memory.
Second stage
Sounds are processed by the short-term memory, meaning is extracted.
First stage
Sounds go to the echoic memory.
Language comprehension
Cognitive skills
Linguistic skills
Individual linguistic units
Phonemes, words, gramatical structures, background knowledge.
