"The employment of listening strategies is part of a cognitive approach to learning that emphasises metacognition-thinking about the way one processes language. Metacognitive processing is a form critical thinking, in which we seek to overcome- or at least counterbalance- our instinctive reactive" (Rost,2011). For one think it could be argued that Listening in L2/FL looked at the reading skill as an "idol" ; when we read we employ critical reading ! the crucial question may therefore be why we are not critical listening ? On other word , why teachers can not /or would not teach the students how to listen "CRITICALLY".
Long time ago, Lundsteen (1963) found that elementary school children could listen critically with appropriate instruction; recently though Vandergrift & Goh(2012) suggested stages in the Metacognitive Pedagogical Sequence for listening structure.(see or read the main introduction in this blog.
One more thing, Rost(2011)wrote about a balanced method teaching listening, one of the key elements is to "provide a lot of accessible input for learners, in a variety of audio, video and interactive media. Use text support to enhance the input( the listening materials)and promote comprehension. I think this what it call "Extensive Listening".This is one of the reason I created this Blog. (please note that I am only collecting the materials but I am not the creator of these materials, hence big thank you for the creators)However, The question remain is how to go about listening?
Well, here is a guide prepared for you that is you might want to follow .(in the classroom or with a partner outside classroom)
Critical listening will fit nicely in stage E.
Now click on a link you like (on the left /written in Arabic ) and apply this listening guide:
Ideas
not predicted but were mentioned
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Other ideas
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Reflection and Goal-Setting
I was successful in anticipating -------ideas
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What I will do next
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Source: (vandergrift & Goh (2012)
Rost (2011)
Welcome to teaching and researching second language (L2)foreign language (FL) Listening.