Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Grammar

Here are some grammar objectives for Stage 3 for listening:

To understand speech containing all the grammatical structures commonly used in oral discourse, including those that represent hypothetical or unreal situations, possible or wished-for outcomes and emotional states

• To distinguish subtle nuances in meaning coded in the grammar

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Listen for grammatical structures you do not completely understand and try to find out how they work.

• Inference

  Exposure to massive amounts of comprehensible input will help you infer the meaning of grammatical structures occurring in natural speech.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

The Audio Archive technique

• The Interview techniques
• The Handling Idioms technique

Here are some grammar activities for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

The Social Visiting activity

• The Join in the Work activity

• Any activity that exposes you to comprehensible input

  • Listen to radio, TV, and films, for fun, if available
  • Join clubs or interest groups, choirs, sports teams--anything that gives you exposure to people speaking the language to you and to each other

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 3: 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.]

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