Is the ability to receive, understand, interpret, and
respond to verbal and non-verbal messages from the
speaker.
Definition
Comprehension is part of the communication skills such as the development of
reading and writing comprehension. It involves the multiple processes of
comprehension in language when it is understood, interpreted, and spoken.
The importance of recognizing context in listening means that the person can
relate what they hear to the real world. Listening Comprehension has the
multiple processes of comprehension in language when it is understood,
interpreted, and spoken.
Differences between listening
and hearing
Hearing
• Physiological order
• Perceiving the sounds
• Passive process
Listening to
• Interpretative order
• Interpreting sound and
verbal and non-verbal
actions • Active process
Elements of listening and understanding
1. The listener.
2. The message
transmitted (text)
3. The context
(linguistic
environment)
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, analyzing, and using
cognitive skills in the process.
. After listening: This is the assessment phase. This phase is
about determining whether what was heard was understood
by making summaries, forming questions, etc.
Listening Comprehension Skills
• Recognition
• Selection
• Interpretation
Listening comprehension with
socio-cultural interaction
The development of Listening Comprehension is directly linked
to language and how this helps to enhance learning and
understanding. Listening helps to interpret the speaker, his
speech and what he wants to achieve with that speech..
The development of listening has also been able to
generate social skills as listening to others and not simply
hearing sounds and linking these sounds are essential.
Listening and language
Listening Comprehension Example
Listening carefully will lead to imitating sounds and identifying them. In this
process, little by little, your memory will generate that what you learn is related.
Patrick knows that the native language of this continent is Spanish, so he
starts to study Spanish before starting his trip. 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.
The learning of a new language generates the development
of cognitive skills for the person, in which writing, and
speaking can be evidenced to complete the knowledge of that
language with the power of Listening Comprehension.
Characteristics of Listening Comprehension
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. With this, the person will hinder the correct
interpretation of the message and eliminate what is not useful and not
relevant.