Listening Comprehesion

Listening Comprehesion

1. To listen

   •  Listening is the ability to receive, understand, interpret and respond to verbal and non-verbal messages.

2.  What is listening comprehension?

   •  Connected to cognitive learning as it works with the development of memory, attention, vocabulary, grammar and monitoring of comprehension.

3. Differences between listening and hearing.

   •  HEAR IS: Perceive physiological sounds.
     •  LISTENING IS: When listening, gestures, postures, facial expressions, silences, among others, are connected in order to understand the message given by the speaker.

4. Elements of listening and understanding.

   •  1.- The listener: includes sounds and organizes them.
     •  2.-The message conveys (text): it is built through linguistic understanding.
       •  3.-The context (linguistic environment): message that the listener has.

5. Listening comprehension, there are several components of development that are:

   •  1. Before listening: Planning phase, it is determined why it is going to be listened to and who is going to be listened to.
     •  2. During listening: Execution phase, action while listening, as a hypothesis, mental images, observation, gestures, analysis and skills in the process.
       •  3. After listening: Evaluation phase, determine if what was heard was understood, make summaries and questions.

6. Listening comprehension skills

   •  -Recognition: connect, recognize the components of a message (sounds, words, linguistic elements such as pronouns, verbs, among others).
     •  -Selection: select the most important words of the message (nouns, verbs, keywords among others).
       •  -Interpretation: is the understanding of the information heard. This means knowing the intent and purpose of the message, main ideas, and the most significant importance of the message.

7. Importances of listening comprehension are as follows.

   •  -Anticipating: Anticipating a specific topic and being able to understand it better by having the right bases.
     •  -Infer: infer the issuer's data, this means that it is possible to extract the information from the situation that is being presented.
       •  -Retain: Remember words and key ideas to know how to interpret them.

8. 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.

9. Anticipating

   • Activating the information, you have in order to use it in advance on a specific topic and to be able to understand it better by having the right bases such as language and body expressions.

10. Infer

    • To be able to infer the data of the sender, 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.

11. Retain

    • Remember key words and ideas in order to know how to interpret them. Retaining in the long term memory is important to get the most out of a message that is heard.

12. Listening comprehension with socio-cultural interaction

    • This relationship goes from the speaker, message, and listener, the latter being the listener as the one who deciphers the message with the language and learning tools he or she has. Listening is the key to understanding the speaker’s message.

13. Listening and language

    • The learning of a new language generates the development of cognitive skills for the person, in which writing and speaking can be evidenced in order to complete the knowledge of that language with the power of Listening Comprehension.

14. Listening Comprehension Example

    • Listening Comprehension is vital in this process because it is a fundamental part of the first steps in immersing yourself in the new language. Listening carefully will lead to imitating sounds, identifying them and being able to repeat in the best way what your teacher is teaching you. In this process, little by little, your memory will generate that what you learn is related and that you will be acquiring the skills of listening to generate new knowledge.

15. 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.
      • • Auditory skills are needed for this, as the person has to store information to be able to give feedback or reflect on the message he or she is hearing.