The Listening Process

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The Listening Process

• Listening is a highly complex, interactive
  process by which spoken language is converted to
  meaning in the mind (Lundsteen, 1979, p. 1).
  Hearing is not listening!
• Listening entails, receiving, attending, and
  assigning meaning (Wolvin and Coakley, 1979).
  Assimilation and accomodation help in assigning
  meaning.

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Purposes for Listening

• Discriminative (tapes of animal sounds, and other
  noises)
• Comprehensive listening (required in
  instructional activities)
• Critical listening (to evaluate
  messages-propaganda)
• Appreciative Listening (speakers, readers,
  classmates)
• Therapeutic Listening (sympathetic listening)
• Is there need for systematic instruction?

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Comprehensive Listening Strategies (elementary)

• Forming a picture (image write about it)
• Putting information into groups (categories,
  Chunking)
• Asking questions Why am I listening to this
  message?, do I know what ------means?, Does this
  information make sense to me?
• Discovering the Plan (description, sequence,
  Comparison, cause and effect, problem/solution)
• Note taking (Demonstrate by taking notes with the
  children)
• Getting clues from the speaker (visual verbal)

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Critical Listening

• Help children to recognize, persuasion and
  propaganda, deceptive language loaded words).
  Propaganda devices (handout)
• Step- Introduce commercials, explain deceptive
  language, analyze it, review concepts, provide
  practice, create commercials
• Same procedure applies to advertisements

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Appreciative Listening

• Important for reading aloud to students, repeated
  readings, oral presentations
• Teaching appreciative Listening
• Before reading activate prior knowledge,
  background, set purpose for reading
• During reading Use Directed Reading Thinking
  Activity (DRTA)-predictions, Reasoning further
  predictions, proving
• After share their log and relate to their lives.
• Enjoyment is reason enough to read aloud to
  children.

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Authentic Listening Activities

• Acting out a story from one that is read.
• Making or doing something by following oral
  directions
• Participating in class or group discussions
• Getting information by listening to an
  announcement
• Working on group projects
• Critiquing a peers draft of a story after
  listening to it
• Enjoying good literature that is well presented
  orally
• Evaluating an issue that is being debated
• Evaluating products advertised in commercials
• Evaluating candidates from their campaign
  speeches

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Strategies for Teaching Listening

• Directed Listening Activity (DL-TA)
• Before Listening
• Listening during the story
• After Listening
• The Structured Listening Activity (SLA)
• Concept Building
• Listening purpose
• Reading Aloud
• Questioning
• Reciting

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Conti

• 3. InQuest
• Read the story
• Role-Playing a news conference
• Evaluating the interview
• 4. Listening-Reading Transfer Strategy
• Establish purpose
• Reading the selection
• Developing the skill
• Letting students read
• Group sharing