ENG 1514
ASSIGNMENT 2
2022
, 1 a. Receptive skills
b. Productive skills
2a. Understanding or comprehension stage
2b. The evaluating stage
3a. Discriminative listening is a type of listening in which the listener assigns meaning to
sounds rather than words. Discriminative listening is therefore mainly about hearing
nuances and differences in sounds and body language. The listener focuses on
characteristics such as speed, intonation and pitch.For example, being able to tell
whether the language being spoken is English or your mother tongue. If what you hear
sounds unfamiliar, it means you cannot understand what is being said. For example, if a
Spanish-speaker walked along the streets of Pretoria, in South Africa, where people
mainly speak Sepedi, s/he would instantly be able to tell that the language being spoken
was certainly not their mother tongue.
b. Listening comprehension encompasses the multiple processes involved in
understanding and making sense of spoken language. These include recognizing speech
sounds, understanding the meaning of individual words, and/or understanding the syntax
of sentences in which they are presented. It requires us to know the vocabulary and rules
of a language. We cannot comprehend spoken language if we do not know how the
system of that language is arranged, and what its words mean.
4a.
ASSIGNMENT 2
2022
, 1 a. Receptive skills
b. Productive skills
2a. Understanding or comprehension stage
2b. The evaluating stage
3a. Discriminative listening is a type of listening in which the listener assigns meaning to
sounds rather than words. Discriminative listening is therefore mainly about hearing
nuances and differences in sounds and body language. The listener focuses on
characteristics such as speed, intonation and pitch.For example, being able to tell
whether the language being spoken is English or your mother tongue. If what you hear
sounds unfamiliar, it means you cannot understand what is being said. For example, if a
Spanish-speaker walked along the streets of Pretoria, in South Africa, where people
mainly speak Sepedi, s/he would instantly be able to tell that the language being spoken
was certainly not their mother tongue.
b. Listening comprehension encompasses the multiple processes involved in
understanding and making sense of spoken language. These include recognizing speech
sounds, understanding the meaning of individual words, and/or understanding the syntax
of sentences in which they are presented. It requires us to know the vocabulary and rules
of a language. We cannot comprehend spoken language if we do not know how the
system of that language is arranged, and what its words mean.
4a.
