Listening Strategies

One of the most essential skill that we use in communicating in order to comprehend and to give appropriate feedback when needed.

• Reading

• Listening

• Watching

• Writing

It is a listener-based listening strategy wherein the listener uses a schema or background knowledge of the topic to make sense of what he/she is listening to.

• Bottom-up

• Summarizing

• Top-down

• Listening for specific details

A text-based listening strategy that attempts to make sense of the language sound by sound or word by word, with less use of background knowledge.

• Recognizing word sounds

• Top-down

• Purpose of listening

• Bottom-up

Listed below are the factors in using or applying listening strategies, which doesn’t belong to the group?

• Purpose of listening

• Making predictions

• Topic

• Type of listening material

Listening is the same as hearing.

• No

• Yes

• Maybe

Listening is the least significant skill one should develop.

• True

• False

Communication can be effective even if we don’t listen carefully.

• True

• False

Listening from a public announcement to make predictions is an example of Top-down listening strategy.

• True

• False

A child trying to recognize words is an example of a Bottom-up listening strategy.

• True

• False

There are three types of listening strategies.

• True

• False