Lesson 1 Listening Strategy
Lesson 1 Listening Strategy
Lesson 1 Listening Strategy
LISTENING
STRATEGIES
LISTENING These are techniques or activities that
STRATEGIES contribute directly to the comprehension
and recall of listening input.
It is a listener-based strategy
It focuses on content
The listener uses background knowledge of the topic to make sense of what he/she is
listening to.
The listener already know a fair amount of information about the topic and he/she is able to
relate a story or information into a prior knowledge.
TOP-DOWN LISTENING STRATEGIES
BOTTOM-UP
SCENARIO 3
• In one classes, your teacher asked
you to listen to a pre-recorded
conversation and identify where
the conversation took place.
TOP-DOWN
SCENARIO 4
• Your mother gave you a call and
you were asked to buy some items
at the grocery store. Since you
were not familiar with the items
she cited, you made sure to
remember specific details she
mentioned.
BOTTOM-UP
SCENARIO 5
• While listening to a lecture, you
saw one of your classmates taking
down important notes. This
classmate of yours also made a
word map to connect those words
and phrases that he/she listed.
TOP-DOWN
Decide whether each of the listening strategies below should be
categorized as top-down or bottom-up strategies.
1. taking down notes TOP-DOWN
2. listening for specific details BOTTOM-UP
3. identifying the speaker TOP-DOWN
4. summarizing TOP-DOWN
5. drawing inferences TOP-DOWN
6. recognizing cognates BOTTOM-UP
7. recognizing divisions between words BOTTOM-UP
8. listening for the main idea TOP-DOWN
9. recognizing word-order patterns BOTTOM-UP
10.making predictions TOP-DOWN