Listening Skill

 

LSRW SKILLS

Language skills can be divided into aural-oral skills (Listening and Speaking), and graphic-motor skills (reading and writing).

Other division can be:

i)    Active/ productive /expressive skills:

Ex: Speaking and writing

ii)   Passive/receptive/comprehensive skills

Ex: Listening and reading

Harold E Palmer introduced the order of 4 skills, i.e., L S R W.

J A Bright questioned the sequence of four language skills.

LISTENING SKILL

Listening is the process of receiving and interpreting the spoken word.

Without being taught to listen, a pupil never speaks.

According to Palmer, Listening is the shortest way to learn a language.

Ralph Nicholas, James Brown, and Carl Weaver were eminent linguists who established listening as a skill and care considered as “Fathers of Listening”

The International Listening Association (ILA) is an organization established in 1979 in Minnesota, USA to promote the study, development, and teaching of listening.

Listening Material:

Ø  Authentic: speech recorded in real life situations

Ø  Recorded: specially scripted for teaching purpose

Ø  Live: by teacher/situational

Types of Listening:

Intensive listening	Extensive listening
You will be working hard and analyzing what you hear. You practice it at school. Focus on building general, foundational skills	You can relax and simply enjoy what you hear. You practice it outside of class. Focuses on application of these skills.

Other Types of listening

Casual listening:

Ø  listening without any purpose.

Ø  We don't listen attentively.

Ø  We don't remember much of what we heard.

Ø  Ex: Listening to radio while chatting to your friend or doing some work.

Focused listening:

Ø  We listen to specific details

Ø  listening with purpose.

Ø  We listen carefully and attentively. We try to understand, interpret and evaluate what we listen.

Ø  Ex: Important news, interviews, dialogues, class lecture, rhyme and rhythm in the poem, the music and literature in songs of once interest

Appreciative listening:

Ø  Listening for enjoyment Ex: music

Gist listening:

Ø  Public speeches, general lectures, seminars are listening as a whole and come out with the information in a gist.