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A teacher dictates a ten sentence paragraph in her class. She reads out the paragraph twice and asks her learners to listen to paragraph carefully and rewrite the paragraph. Learners need not write the exact sentences of the paragraph. They need to capture the meaning or nearer to the meaning of the paragraph. What approach does the teacher use here for teaching listening?

A teacher dictates a ten sentence paragraph in her class. She reads out the paragraph twice and asks her learners to listen to paragraph carefully and rewrite the paragraph. Learners need not write the exact sentences of the paragraph. They need to capture the meaning or nearer to the meaning of the paragraph. What approach does the teacher use here for teaching listening? Correct Answer <span style="">Top down approach</span>

Language skills are necessary for effective communication in any environment and to interact with others. It allows an individual to comprehend and produce language for proper and effective interpersonal communication.

  • The four basic language skills and their natural order are listening-speaking-reading-writing. These foundational skills of language are divided into two categories which are receptive and productive skills.

Key Points 

  • The above-mentioned strategy is known as the Top-down approach of listening. In this approach, the learner utilizes the background or previous knowledge to figure out the meaning of language.
  • It focuses on looking at language as a whole rather than individual sounds and concentrating on the meaning rather than grammatical structures that's why in the above activity the students are asked to capture the meaning.
  • This approach emphasizes understanding the subject matter without necessarily going into detail about the particular topic. For example, a listener starts with the main idea, predicts, draws inferences, and summarizes.

Hence, we conclude that the teacher used the Top-down approach for teaching listening.

Additional Information 

  • Bottom-up approach: It is a listening process that focuses on decoding text moving from sounds to words, phrases, clauses, and other grammatical elements.
  • A structural approach is a language tool that helps the learner to master the structure or pattern of sentences. It is the descriptive approach that gives more importance to speech only without reference to meaning.
  • In Paragraph dictation, the teacher reads the paragraph twice and the students are required to work in groups to listen and rewrite the paragraph nearer to what they heard and not exactly the same sentence.

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