A teacher of class VIII asks her learners to listen to the five sentences she reads out and write them down the exact sentences. Which strategy of listening she attempts to promote?

A teacher of class VIII asks her learners to listen to the five sentences she reads out and write them down the exact sentences. Which strategy of listening she attempts to promote? Correct Answer Bottom up strategy

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.
• Bottom-up strategy is a listening process that focuses on decoding messages moving from sounds to words, phrases, clauses, and other grammatical elements to sentences.
• The above-mentioned strategy of listening is known as Bottom up strategy as in order to write down the exact sentences, one has to focuses on listening to the specific details and recognizing cognates and word order patterns.
• Bottom-up strategy emphasizes understanding language by looking at the individual and grammatical meaning and going into the detail of the particular topic. Activities such as Dictation, Cloze tasks, etc. aim at promoting bottom-up listening processes.

Hint 

• A top-down strategy of listening 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.