Strategic learning and listening competence

Strategic learning and listening competence

1. Components underlying listening proficiency

   • Communicative Competence Canale & Swain (2002)
     • Grammatical
       • Understanding and applying grammatical rules of what is heard
     • Sociolinguistic
       • Understanding the social and the cultural background to clarify what is heard
     • Strategic
       • Using techniques to figure out different meanings
     • Discourse
       • Understanding the coherence and cohesion of a discourse

2. Variables on listening comprehension

   • Word-level
     • factors that influence the understanding of an unfamiliar word (e.g Context)
   • Sentence-level
     • The more complex the syntax is in the text, the more difficult is to comprehend
   • Discourse-level
     • Familiarity with the topic or vocabulary enhance the spoken text comprehension
   • Task-processing factores
     • To infer ideas through different steps

3. Witt's levels of strategic listening

   • Level 1. The facts
     • Picture the situation as the person is describing it
   • Level 2. Meaning
     • To understand what the person means and make the other person feel understood
   • Level 3. feelings
     • To recognize how the person is feeling and make the other person feel conected
   • Level 4. Intention
     • To know what the person wants to achieve

4. Structure for the development of listening

   • Types of knowledge
     • knowledge of conventions of spoken discourse
       • control and verification
     • Procedual knowledge required to apply the other types of knowledge in comparing a spoken discourse
       • clarification and simplification
     • Procedual knowledge required to evaluate a spoken discourse
       • taking a critical stand
     • Procedual knowledge to organize the content
       • identification of the schema
     • knowledge of content and experience
       • Identification of macroframe