Teaching listening #2 – Bottom-up processing (Cambridge ELT Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Teaching bottom-up processing
Learners need a large vocabulary and a good working knowledge of sentence structure to process texts bottom-up. Exercises that develop bottom-up processing help the learner to do such things as the following:

  • Retain input while it is being processed
  • Recognize word and clause divisions
  • Recognize key words
  • Recognize key transitions in a discourse

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