Listen Hear! : 25 Effective Listening Comprehension Strategies

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Understanding Listening 1(13) Why Define Listening? 1(1) So What Is Listening? 1(4) Five Good Reasons for Teaching Listening 5(2) Reasons We Don't Consider Listening a Topic of Instruction 7(2) Suggested Guidelines for Teaching Listening 9(5) Discriminative Listening 14(20) Tongue-Tying Twisters 16(3) How Do I Feel? 19(3) Loud or Soft Sounds? 22(3) Hey Now, What's That Sound? 25(3) Show Me 28(6) Precise Listening 34(23) Give Me Five 37(5) What's the Good Word? 42(3) Talk Show 45(3) Add One 48(3) Are You Following? 51(6) Strategic Listening 57(20) Fill in the Gaps: Making Inferences 59(4) Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA): Making Predictions 63(3) Structured Listening Activity (SLA): Questioning 66(3) Sum It Up!: Summarizing 69(3) Get the Picture: Visualization 72(5) Critical Listening 77(20) What's Your Perspective? 79(3) Loaded Words 82(3) Propaganda 85(4) Fact and Opinion 89(3) Compare and Contrast 92(5) Appreciative Listening 97(19) Humor 100(3) Poetry 103(3) Music 106(3) Multimedia 109(2) Theatre 111(5) Assessing Listening 116(13) Teacher Self-Assessment 117(1) Student Self-Assessment 117(5) Assessing the Different Types of Listening 122(3) Classroom Environment 125(4) Children's Literature 129(8) References 137