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

B. Listening for specific information

• Concentrate on relevant parts• Ignore the irrelevant

information• Attention given to names,

dates, numbers, reasons/ causes, and places

Listening Skills

C. 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

D. Summarising

• Listen and understand what is said

• In shorter and precise form• Only main ideas are included• Details will be discarded

Listening Skills

E. 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

F. 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 additionMoreoverFurthermoreAnd

Listening Skills: Transition Markers

• SequenceFirst, second, third…NextFinallyLast

• IllustrationFor example, such as, like

Listening Skills: Transition Markers

• ConclusionAs a resultThereforeHenceThus In conclusion

Listening Skills

G. Drawing Conclusion

• Think carefully what has been said

• Next, form a logical opinion• Similar steps to making

predictions

Listening Skills

H. 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.