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A teacher conducts a dictation in her class with five sentences. She dictates five sentences two times and asks her learners to write the sentences exactly as dictated. What listening strategy does the teacher here aims at assessing?

A teacher conducts a dictation in her class with five sentences. She dictates five sentences two times and asks her learners to write the sentences exactly as dictated. What listening strategy does the teacher here aims at assessing? Correct Answer <span style="">Bottom-up listening process</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

  • 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.
  • Here, the teacher is dictating the sentences and asks the students to write the sentences exactly as dictated. The teacher is assessing at the bottom-up listening process.
  • 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.
  • It concentrates on individual sounds, words, and phrases while listening, rather than the meaning of the text as a whole. Dictation aim at promoting bottom-up listening processes.

Thus, it is concluded that the teacher aims at assessing the bottom-up listening process.

Additional Information

  • 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.

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