Teaching Listening 1 - Top down processing

This is the first in a two part series on teaching listening. It looks at the differences between the receptive skills of reading and listening and what top down processing is. Part 2 in this series looks at bottom up processing and some classroom ideas for practising this. If you like this, check out my other material for English language teachers at: ELT-Training.com www.elt-traini... including the CELTA Toolkit 'Grammar for Teachers' course www.elt-traini.... Language Analysis www.elt-traini....

[@awadahmed4510]

Thank you Jo. Brilliant video as usual.

[@mehmet.albyrk]

Thank you teacher❤❤

[@susangalan9163]

good explanation thankyou!

[@margaritasainz1922]

Thank you for your video, but the music is too loud. It makes it really hard to focus on the message, cause it matches the volume of your voice.

[@japfethm.penicate7969]

Content Schemata is the knowledge that you already know

[@lindalin5170]

Could you give some activities that can be used in teaching listening ? IELTS listening comprehension .

[@bordaswilliamsw7396]

I Would like to you share more about the listening materials and which are those materials.

[@sowathanakhamphean8356]

That is wonderful. I learn so much from your video.

[@karimahfb2878]

Thank you for your efforts, we need videos about how to teach productive skills.

[@elttraining]

Have a look on my website- there’s lots there! www.elt-training.com

[@ni3467]

How do we help learners with dyslexsia as it can be very difficult for to read and understand

[@user-cu3hs4jc2p]

Thanks for your help

[@japfethm.penicate7969]

You can predict how the conversation will go

[@meriemkami6790]

Thanks ❤

[@samuelamizade9395]

Everything I looked for today

[@genieoutofthebottle]

thank you!

[@japfethm.penicate7969]

The other way of using td is content schemata

[@glendagallardo1611]

Thanks

[@samirabekheira6336]

Is asking for gist a type of top down processing?

[@hishamelbadry1860]

I want the script of the video if possible

[@japfethm.penicate7969]

Used in buying transaction script

[@daielcero]

But How actually
you teach listening. That is what I am looking for. You just give a bunch of information stead of talking about how to teach listening. What I mean is which sort of activities could we apply when it comes to teaching listening.

[@randomist3475]

For example you play a tape where two people are having an exchange in a formal language, and the learners can be told to infer where the conversation might take place, who the participants might be and what their roles are. They're not explicitly told about this info, but they can with their existing knowledge make those conclusions. That would be a top-down approach
Bottom-up approach assumes that listening is a process that starts from recognizing simplest units such as words to sentences they form. If we know each of them individually and how they join up together to make sense, it means our listening comprehension is good. As for the tasks, the learners can be told to recognize key words in speech, focus on stress and intonation to recognize sentence elements or simply recognize different types of clauses in speech

[@gulino3599]

This is an academic lesson for English Language Teaching students idiot.

[@MrSpielfehler]

@@gulino3599 no need to get condescending though, Deniz. :)

[@japfethm.penicate7969]

It helps in predicting

[@drvenkywilliams8907]

plz stop the background music if possible

[@elttraining]

Hi Venky- I’m afraid it’s not possible to change the video once it’s on CZcams, but I have stopped using background music on most of the videos if that helps! Best, Jo

[@jan_kisan]

”spelling is largely regular” - this is definitely not about English :)

[@awadahmed4510]

You are not thinking about this scientifically. The ratio of regular and irregular spellings in English words is exactly how Jo said. This is her area of expertise.

[@javierjorquera5397]

no te entendi ni vergas nose inglés

[@nancyfernandez9645]

speak with more energy please

[@griffinq569]

Be polite please

[@lalliankimi2589]

Super boring!

[@carolnelson63]

How rude !