Activity 1. Categorize the activities below as involving top-down or bottom-up processing. Before the item, write BU for bottom-up and TD for top-down approach. ________ 1. Listen to a 2-minute long conversation about getting around the city ________ 2. Listen to sentences giving and asking for directions, paying attention to the intonation, meaning, and grammatical struc ture of each phrase ________ 3. Answer a completion test by selecting the appropriate verb to complete the thought of a sentence ______ _ 4.
Asking and answering questions about thefamous foods in town
________L. 5. Holding a class discussion about different modes of transpor tation to get to the famous city museum ________ 6.
Listening to the first 20 seconds of the audio recording to predict the topic of the material
7. Check one's predictions after listening to the audio recording 8. Summarizing a conversation ________ 9.
Act out situations
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Writing a story based on a picture of a city
Activity 2. Mendelson (1994) posits the methodologies in the teaching of listening as characterized by the assumptions listed below. Do you agree with these assumptions? Interview language teachers about their current teaching practices and whether they have seen these theories applied in the classroom. 'v
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Listening materials should be based on a wide range of authentic texts, including both monologues and dialogues. Schema-building tasks should precede listening. Strategies for effective listen ing should be incorporated into the materials.
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