Which process of listening involves getting the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences and summarizing?

Which process of listening involves getting the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences and summarizing? Correct Answer Top down listening processes.

Listening Process-Listening is the process of receiving messages from oral, verbal, and non-verbal communication and interpreting the same.

Key Points

• The process which involves getting the main idea, predicting, drawing inference, and summarizing is the top-to-the-down listening process.
• The top-down listening process starts from the meaning and proceeds backward. The listening process follows the abstract to concrete approach
• As in the abstract to concrete approach, The abstract idea is taken into account from the abstracts ideas the concepts are inferred. 
• This kind of approach helps in building the skill of analysis, understanding, and hypothesis. Top-down strategies include listening to the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences, and summarizing.
• In this approach, the learner utilizes the background or previous knowledge to figure out the meaning of language. It is an approach that focuses on:
  • looking at language as a whole rather than individual sounds, words, and phrases.
    • concentrating on meaning rather than the grammatical structures and individual words.
    • understanding the subject matter without necessarily going into detail about the particular topic.

 Thus, we can conclude that the Top-down listening processes involve getting the main idea, predicting, drawing inference and summarizing.

Additional Information

•  Bottom-up listening process-  The listener here understands the concepts first and then he makes the inference based on his listening. 
•  Eg of the bottom-up listening in class the teacher teaches the concepts of the language then we we uses the language.