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General Listening Strategies

The document discusses various listening skills including listening for main ideas, specific information, paraphrasing, summarizing, making inferences, predicting, recognizing transition markers, drawing conclusions, recognizing attitudes and roles, and listening critically. Some key strategies are to focus on the text, identify main ideas and ignore unnecessary details, pay attention to transition words to help predict what comes next, and analyze information critically.

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General Listening Strategies

The document discusses various listening skills including listening for main ideas, specific information, paraphrasing, summarizing, making inferences, predicting, recognizing transition markers, drawing conclusions, recognizing attitudes and roles, and listening critically. Some key strategies are to focus on the text, identify main ideas and ignore unnecessary details, pay attention to transition words to help predict what comes next, and analyze information critically.

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General Listening Strategies

• Concentrate and keep your mind


focussed on what you are listening to
• Listen intently
• Get an overall view of the text – you do
not need to understand or memorize
every word
• When listening to oral text more than
once:-
- Identify the main ideas the first time
- Identify specific details, like numbers,
names etc
• Lean and apply the right listening skills
Listening Skills
A. Listening for main ideas

• Find out what the text is all about


• Take note of all the key words
• Summarize them into one sentence
Listening Skills
A. Listening for specific
information

• Concentrate on relevant parts


• Ignore the irrelevant information
• Attention given to names, dates,
numbers, reasons/ causes, and
places
Listening Skills
A. Paraphrasing

• Listen and understand what is


being said
• Identify the main ideas and key
words.
• Link them logically and restate
using your own words
Listening Skills
A. Summarising

• Listen and understand what is said


• In shorter and precise form
• Only main ideas are included
• Details will be discarded
Listening Skills
A. Making Inferences

• Making intelligent guess or


making logical interpertation
based on information given
• Analyze the availabe information
& interpret the whole meaning
• Make use of background
knowledge and common sense
Listening Skills
A. Predicting

• Guessing what the speaker is


going to say next
• Pay attention to transition markers
as they help in predicting what
comes next
Listening Skills:
Transition Markers
• Change of direction
 But
 However
 Even though
 Furthermore

• Cause & effect


 because, so
Listening Skills:
Transition Markers

• Additional information

 In addition
 Moreover
 Furthermore
 And
Listening Skills:
Transition Markers
• Sequence
 First, second, third…
 Next
 Finally
 Last

• Illustration
 For example, such as, like
Listening Skills:
Transition Markers

• Conclusion
 As a result
 Therefore
 Hence
 Thus
 In conclusion
Listening Skills
A. Drawing Conclusion

• Think carefully what has been said


• Next, form a logical opinion
• Similar steps to making predictions
Listening Skills
A. Recognizing attitudes, roles &
relationship

• Attention to signals in spoken


discourse – tone, speed, volume &
quality of voice
• Attention to speakers’ choice of
words
Listening Skills
I. Listening Critically

• Distinguish fact from opinion


• Analyze & evaluate the
information
• Listen to all information critically
as speaker may say something
unreasonable, exaggerate or
unreliable.

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