Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Vocabulary

Here are some vocabulary objectives for Stage 3 for listening:

• To develop sufficient vocabulary to follow the main ideas of people talking about a broad range of social and work-related topics including

  • topics you need for your job
  • topics you are especially interested in, and
  • topics important to people in the culture
• To correctly interpret idioms, colloquialisms, and varieties of register

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

Analysis Do semantic analysis to learn the correct context and social setting of vocabulary items. Do not limit yourself only to comfortable areas. Practice List topics you need for your job, topics you are interested in, and topics important to the culture as beginning points for collecting vocabulary items and for further practice. Selective attention Focus your attention on specific topics (as detailed above) as you seek to expand your vocabulary. Auditory representation Record chunks of discourse, and so forth that contain cultural concepts or other topics of interest for repeated listening and practice.

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

• The Audio Archive technique
• The Interview techniques
• The Handling Idioms technique

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

• The Social Visiting 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: Vocabulary
• 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.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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