{"id":5670,"date":"2016-01-27T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:36:07","slug":"bottom-up-decoding-listening-oup-elt-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Bottom-up decoding: listening (OUP ELT Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/oupeltglobalblog.com\/2014\/07\/01\/bottom-up-decoding-reading-and-listening-for-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a> I explained some of the reasons why we should focus on bottom-up strategies for listening and reading. In this post, I\u2019d like to show how this might work in practice for the skill of listening.<\/p>\n<p>Even learners who have a good range of grammar and vocabulary can struggle with understanding natural speech. And the same is true even for listeners who have a reasonable grasp of the topic and good prediction skills (usually associated with top-down strategies).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There could be a number of reasons for this, but one essential reason is that they have difficulty in decoding the \u201csignal\u201d which is coming at them. By \u201cdecoding\u201d, I mean perceiving the sounds of English and linking them mentally to words and phrases that they have in their store of language. (Even so-called native speakers struggle with this \u2013 for example, the recent case of a man who thought the phrase \u201cas opposed to\u201d was \u201cas a pose to\u201d until he was nearly 20.)<\/p>\n<p>English is often described as a particularly difficult language to understand in this respect, as<\/p>\n<p>(a) the sounds we hear don\u2019t always correspond to what we think is the spelling<\/p>\n<p>(b) certain sounds change when spoken quickly and\/or in groups of words. In the example above, the schwa sound at the start of \u201copposed\u201d could be spelt as an O or an A, and the \/d\/ sound at the end of \u201copposed\u201d gets lost (elided?) in the following \/t\/ sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oupeltglobalblog.com\/2016\/01\/20\/bottom-up-decoding-listening\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] In a previous post I explained some of the reasons why we should focus on bottom-up strategies for listening and reading. In this post, I\u2019d like to show how this might work in practice for the skill of listening. 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