A teacher of class V conducts a dictation activity with five sentences of five or six words. She reads out the sentences two times and asks her learners to listen carefully and write the sentences as dictated. What approach to listening does the teacher want to adopt here?

A teacher of class V conducts a dictation activity with five sentences of five or six words. She reads out the sentences two times and asks her learners to listen carefully and write the sentences as dictated. What approach to listening does the teacher want to adopt here? Correct Answer Bottom up approach

Bottom-up model of language learning is a type of information processing based on incoming data from the environment to form a perception. It happens when someone tries to understand language by looking at individual meanings or grammatical characteristics of the most basic units of the text.

Key Points 

• Bottom-up process is a listening process that focuses on decoding messages moving from sounds to words, phrases, clauses, and other grammatical elements to sentences.
• Dictation aim at promoting bottom-up listening processes as it has been regarded as a technique to train pupils to listen carefully, concentrate for the time being and retain what is being spoken, and reproduce it in good handwriting at a reasonable speed.
• Here, the teacher wants to adopt the bottom-up approach of listening as in order to write the dictated sentences, learners have to concentrate on individual sounds, words, and phrases while listening, rather than the meaning of the text as a whole.
• The Bottom-up approach emphasizes understanding language by looking at the individual and grammatical meaning and going into the detail of the particular topic. It focuses on listening to the specific details, recognizing cognates and word order patterns.

Hence, it could be concluded that here, the teacher wants to adopt the bottom-up approach of listening.

Hint 

• A top-down listening process is a listening approach that focuses on looking at language as a whole rather than individual sounds, words, and phrases. It concentrates on the meaning rather than grammatical structures and individual words.
• Communicative approach is a method of language teaching which makes learners confident to communicate effectively by involving them in real communication. It prepares the learners for meaningful and authentic communicative activity.
• Dictation has been regarded as a technique to train pupils to listen carefully, concentrate for the time being and retain what is being spoken, and reproduce it in good handwriting at a reasonable speed.