Listening Comprehension

Listening Comprehension

1. Listening Comprehension is part of the communication skills such as the development of reading and writing comprehension. Listening Comprehension has the multiple processes of comprehension in language when it is understood, interpreted and spoken.

   • Listening Comprehension Skills
     • Recognition: connecting, recognizing the components of a message (sounds, words, linguistic elements such as pronouns, verbs, among others).
       • Selection: select the most important words in the message (names, verbs, key words among others), then group the selected details in level of importance.
         • Interpretation: is the understanding of the information that was heard. This means knowing the intention and purpose of the message, its main ideas and the importance of the most significant part of the message the speaker is giving.
   • Anticipating
     • Activating the information you have in order to use it in advance on a specific topic.
     • Infer
       • This means that it is possible to extract the information from the situation that is being presented at the moment with non-verbal codes such as gaze.
       • Retain
         • Remember key words and ideas in order to know how to interpret them.
         • Listening comprehension with socio-cultural interaction
           • Listening helps to interpret the speaker, his speech and what he wants to achieve with that speech. This social listening interaction is often seen with learning a new language.
           • Listening and language
             • The learning of a new language generates the development of cognitive skills for the person, in which writing and speaking
             • Characteristics of Listening Comprehension
               • To know the linguistic code to be able to listen and understand better. The message always has a sequence and congruence in order to be able to relate sounds and words and bring them ideas of thought.

2. Differences between listening and hearing

   • Hearing is: Physiological order, Perceiving the sounds, Passive process.
     • Listening to is: Interpretative order, Interpreting sound and verbal and non-verbal actions, Active process.

3. For listening comprehension there are several developmental components, which are:

   • 1. Before listening: This is the planning phase, where it is determined why one is going to listen, to whom one is going to listen, among other questions.
     • 2. During listening: This is the execution phase. Actions that are carried out as we listen, such as formulating hypotheses, creating mental images, observing and supporting the speaker’s gestures and movements, analysing and using cognitive skills in the process.
       • 3. After listening: This is the assessment phase. This phase is about determining whether what was heard was understood by making summaries, forming questions, etc.