Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Discourse

Here is a discourse objective for Stage 2 for listening:

• To understand the following types of discourse:

  • Dialogues
  • Descriptive paragraphs accompanying a picture
  • Complex sentences
  • Short narrations of shared experiences or familiar stories

Here are some discourse strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Work to discover the scripts for predictable communication situations.

• Top-down processing

  Use your familiarity with the subject matter or your knowledge of a situation to help you understand stories and descriptions.

• Repeated Attention

  Listen to taped stories over and over until you can understand them.

Here are some discourse techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• The Familiar Stories technique
• The Shared Experiences technique
• The Picture Descriptions technique
• The Dumb-Smart Question technique
• The Series technique

Here are some discourse activities for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Listen for variations of familiar scripts, such as greetings, leave-takings, buying and selling transactions, transportation, or restaurant scenes.
• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Social Visiting activity

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Discourse
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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