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Lexis and Listening
Andrew WalkleyCELT
Key to succesful listening and reading
Emphasis has been on teaching skills:
- listen for gist
- scan
- guess unknown words
Focus is on coping with what students don’t know.
The real source of improved receptive skills is vocab knoweldge
Lexis and text coverage– Text coverage Vocabulary size
– 50% 100
– 72% 1000
– 80% 2000
– 90% 6000
– 97% 15000 (academic texts)
Additional problems for listening
– Don’t know how individual sounds and words sound
– Can’t tell where a word starts / finishes in speech (parsing)
– Different sound shapes in speech (city / sea): speechinaction
– Pronouns may be more common than the ‘collocation’ we teach (sort out the
problem / sort it out)
– Different forms may be less obvious than when written (bored, boredom / correr,
no corras, fui corriendo, corri 5 kilometros, corre)
– Hear the word but different meaning. (run 5 miles, run a company, correr 5
kilometros, correte un poco, puedes correr las cortinas?)
– Don’t process words / chunks quick enough
Listening is also speaking
As we listen we give feedback:
- Silence
- Ask for clarification: eh? -
- Comment: What a pain / that must’ve been good / Que fuerte! /
Que rollo!
- Add to comments and ask questions
Doing a listening
Pre-listening ‘activating schemata’ should be seen as opportunity to
teach vocabulary.
– Mind maps from key words
Focusing on vocab and connected speech following initial listening.
– Gap fill listening
– hotspots
What’s your name?wosyornamewusyunem Do you know it?duyewknowitjernuwit How long have you been here?howLONGuvyubinherehaLUNguverbinier
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1EE1mInDsqm
Slow to fast chunks and questions
Word-lists and vocaroo
add bill cash
afraid bird chicken
alcohol book course
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1TqZDheIVQz
Can be self-checking, if based on a dictionary or answers sent later.
Please add your name to the list.If you want to go with us.I'm afraid we don't have a vegetarian menu. Are you ok?This chocolate has alcohol .My husband asked for the bill and pay in cash.I feed the birds in the park. try to book the famous French restaurant. But it's already it's fully booked.Sorry I have no cash on me, can you lend me some money? Do you like turkey? It tastes like chicken,if you like a chicken ,you'll like it!What would you recommend ? The chef's speciality is a three course meal. you can choice each one in the menu.
Hearing words and formsAdapted Total Physical Response and ‘Simon Says’
Single words with actions: watch / read / run / speak / eat
Collocations: watch TV / watch my son playing football
Grammaticalised lexis: have you eaten? I ate too much at dinner
Simon says: (don’t do action when you hear a certain collocation)
Simon says: (don’t do action if you hear a different meaning – have you got a
watch? He runs a big company)
Vocabulary exercises
– Say the examples / students write the collocate / Ss remember key words
from the collocates
– Revisit vocab exercises from previous week. Say sentences. Note if same
or different meaning. Show sentences. Discuss meanings.
– Examples and questions exploring words and co-text (hugh’s workshop)
will help develop networks of language students will hear.
Listenership responses
– Teaching responses – comments and questions can be predictable.
Can also elicit (I’m pregnant).
– Drills
Sentences to elicit phrase:
(appropriate or not) - How did you get into that? / Of course
(clear differences) - What a pain! / That’s great.
(more subtle differences) - What a pain! / What a shame!
(more open) - That must be …
(Short answers – slow and fast) – Where are you from etc.
Thank You
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