Listening Skills

LISTENING SKILLS

By: Erika Chávez Olmos

Listening for basic information

Arts

Life science

Listening for pragmaticunderstanding

Physical science

Connecting andsynthesizing information

Social Science

Comprehend the main idea, major points, and important details related to the main idea.Comprehension of all details is not necessary.

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Listening for basic information

Recognize a speaker’s attitude and degree of certainty.Recognize the function or purpose of a speaker’s statement.

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Listening for pragmaticunderstanding

• Recognize the organization of information presented.
• Understand the relationships between ideas presented (for example, compare/contrast, cause/effect, or steps in a process)
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on what is implied in the material.
• Make connections among pieces of information in a conversation or lecture.
• Recognize topic changes (for example digressions and aside statements) in lectures and conversations, and recognize introductions and conclusions in lectures.

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Connecting andsynthesizing information

• Architecture.
• Industrial design/art.
• City planning.
• Crafts.
• Cave/rock art.
• Music and music history.
• Photography.
• Literature and authors.
• Books newspapers, magazines, jou.

Arts

• Extinction of or conservation efforts for animals and plants.
• Fish and other aquatic organisms.
• Bacteria and other organisms.
• Viruses.
• Medical techniques.
• Public health.
• Physiology of sensory organs.
• Biochemistry.
• Animal behaviour (migration, food foraging, defense)
• Habitats and the adaptation of animals and plants to them.
• Nutrition and its impact on the body.
• Animal communication.

Life science

• Weather and atmosphere.
• Oceanography.
• Glaciers, glacial landforms, ice ages.
• Deserts and other extreme environments .
• Pollution, alternative energy, environmental policy.
• Other planets atmospheres.
• Astronomy and cosmology.
• Properties of sound.
• Electromagnetic radiation.
• Particle physics.
• Technology of tv, radio, radar.
• Chemistry of inorganic things.
• Computer science.
• Seismology .

Physical science

• Anthropology of non industrialized civilizations.
• Early writing systems.
• Historical linguistics.
• Business, management, marketing, accounting.
• Tv radio as mass communication.
• Social behaviour of groups, community dynamics, communal behaviour.
• Child development.
• Education .
• Moderna history ( urbanization and industrialization and their social and economic effects)

Social science