How to Improve Learners’ Listening Abilities through Bottom-up Listening Exercises

[Anonymous]

Have a quick think about the reflective questions below in order to get the most out of the workshop:
1. Should we replace top-down listening exercises with bottom-up exercises?
2. What features of connected speech can bottom-up activities target?
3. Doesn’t the threshold theory invalidate the need for bottom-up listening activities?
4. Does small-scale practice in listening sub-skills transfer into learners’ performance in larger contexts, or when listening to larger comprehension stages?

[mj.pujol.twinam]

1. They both should be used whenever the teaching requires it.
2.-Linking, elision…?
3.-Not necessary but I can’t labour on that.
4.-I do believe it does as subskills cover from listening for gist, detail, specific information…

[jaspreet.kaur]

This was an amazing session for me as it clears how to approach with the listening skills in teaching of english to other speakers. Main takeaways for me are: 1. Assimilation & ellision part. How to proceed with the sentence slowly first then in normal speed?

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