UNIT 7 LISTENING

 UNIT 7 LITENING

• As we know Listening is a receptive skill, as it involves responding to language rather than producing it. For instance:

•                     We listen to obtain information.

•                     We listen to understand.

•                     We listen for enjoyment.

•                     We listen to learn.

Given all this listening we do, you would think we'd be good at it! In fact most of us are not, and research suggests that we remember between 25 percent and 50 percent of what we hear. That means that when you talk to your boss, colleagues, customers or spouse for 10 minutes, they pay attention to less than half of the conversation. Like written language, spoken language has different text types, e.g. conversations, stories, announcements, songs, instructions, lectures and advertisements. Generally they contain different ways of organizing language and information, different grammatical patterns, a particular range of vocabulary, different interaction patterns, fewer or more participants.