Listening Activities transcript

foreign work improve your listening skills through practice with your instructor Professor hania from University of around two the second course is entitled listening comprehension skills this part will be focused on listening activities mainly as always we begin with a quote revealing the field of the unit today let's quote John M O'Connor engage with your eyes and let people talk listening with compassion say things like let me know if this is what you are saying upon completion of this course you will be able to familiarize with different types of activities practice the different strategies through different types of activities develop top down strategies to enhance listening comprehension abilities and differentiate between formal and informal registers reutilized schemata I.E your prior knowledge to map into your own ideas and that and finally move easily from listening to another skill for listening activities every listening exercise should aim to enhance one or more particular listening skill it's possible for a listening activity to have multiple girls and aims among these girls and aim cell recognition right you recognized by identifying particular elements of a message like sounds types of words and word forms you can also Target understanding the main idea by recognizing the more advanced concepts for over reaching themes and mother objective is related to producing So speaking or reciting the message out loud can be also in the form of orientation by figuring out key details of a message such as subject genre and conics also we can Target grasping details by recognizing supporting the information well as a reminder here do you remember that scheme I have a look at it for the second time and activate your knowledge about top down listening activities how would you precise listening what are the top down strategies used in listening processing that is refresh your memory in a few minutes in the real world you will be asked to do so many things using your English some of the English of course that you have learned in the classroom you will need to get information to get for example from a particular point to another you will need to follow instructions maybe to listen to whether reports also you need to be able to discuss certain topics after hearing about them thirdly things are a little bit challenging for all non-native speakers listening comprehension they are challenging for you as well but the best way you can do is prepare yourself for practicing using top down listening activities to check your comprehension what we really need to do first is to help you activating your schema in fact top down listening occurs when you activate your prior knowledge in order to make sense of what you are listening to schema or primology concepts you have already noun is simply what you know about something have you ever come upon some people discussing a particular topic and having no idea about what they were talking about think about it surely you heard the words pronunciation and grammar structures things that you do want processing listening through bottom-up strategies but you didn't really know what the topic of exchange was rounded upon that's because she had no contextual keys that permit year to associate the words pronunciation or grammar to other elements making your understanding more easier how do you feel at that time maybe confused or upset without context you will be unable to really tell us what is being said you will not be able to reply to to sort out these problems we may refer to pre-listing activities to activate your schema you can use your prior knowledge you understand the context of what you are listening to these activities can be predicting order in pictures sequencing events or identifying locations or connects of Exchange predicting by expressing your expectations of what you will be hearing it will be sharing what you expect to hear from the royal family fortune for example telling your expectations about a business or a medical report or drain images also can help to be better prepared for comprehending what you will be listening to we may refer also to comprehension questions listening to recordings and answering questions is a common activity for example you may be asked to express the purposes of the recordings identifying his talking who's the target audience and so on discussions are also ways which appear to be useful to checklist in comprehension from a top-down perspective listening to dialogues interviews and reports should be dealing with topics of interest for the listeners to be fruitful and last point to reconsider here is that of culture the top-down listening strategies often require understanding the culture while listening takes place sometimes as normal speakers of English we Face problems of comprehending certain television shows I think it's very difficult to follow because we just do not know the others culture a good example of this is the old TV show France all that you need is to enlarge your knowledge about the American culture to delve into the Integrity bits of things when watching these movies [Music] while we arrive at the ends thank you for watching [Music]