UNIT 7

LISTENING

Listening is a very crucial skill that peple must improve every day because if we are not good at listening we wont be able to answer accurately or even pronounce the words correctly. Listening is a receptive skill, as it involves responding to language rather that producing it.

when we speak we usually do not have time not only for organize our thoughts, nor for organize our language beforehand, so for that reason we say thigs as we think. when we listen, we listen structured messages. As spoken texts usually disappear as soon as they are said, they need to be simple for us to process and understand having different features because they are produced and understood in dierent circumstances. We make sense fro our understanding o language but also through making use of the context in which the language is spoken. Spoken language has diferent text types as for example conversations, stories, announcements, songs, instructions, lectures and advertisements. Learning to listen involves learning to be learning to be be able to understand a range of relevant text types.

On the other hand learning also involves understanding speeds of speech and different accents. Features such as speed of delivery and accent are part of connected speech.

One reason why learners have problems understanding spoken language is because they are not ued to deal with features of connected speech. in addition there are diferent listening subskills as for example. listening for gist or for global understanding, specific information, listening for detail or to infer attitude., listening intensively and extensively. in the classroom the teacher exposes learners to a range of accents, text types and litening skills, those really helps students to build their confidence.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(Mary Spratt, 2011)

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