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You will see the writing of a glossary of words related to listening comprehension.

by Jonathan Jossue Lechuga Hernández
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Listening glossary

Name Jonathan Jossue Lechuga Hernandez

Teacher: Mayra Cristina Cardenas Zepeda 

4th semester 

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Top- Down- Bottom-up

Top-down: This refers to the use of background knowledge in understanding the meaning of the message.Background knowledge consists of context, that is, the situation and topic, and co-text, in other words, what came before and after.

Bottom-up:  involves listening exercises which develop bottom-up processing helping learners to recognize individual words, sentences, and clause divisions, recognize key linguistic features of the words and sentences. 

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Reduced form- selective listening

 Reduced forms: are words that are not written in English but that are frequently used by native speakers. It's important to be able to recognize them so you can understand spoken English and sound more natural when you speak.

. Selective listening:  is a listening technique that filters and summarizes to achieve the listener’s comprehension goal.

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Phonological reduction

Phonological reduction: is a reduction in the amount of movement of the tongue in pronouncing the vowel, as with the characteristic change of many unstressed vowels at the ends of English words 

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Morphological reduction- Extensive listening

Morphological reduction: It is a process of language change whereby the words that represent objects and actions, that is, nouns and verbs, become grammatical markers, affixes, prepositions, etc.

 Extensive listening: is listening to or engaging in massive amounts of text

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Grammaticalization- Clustering

Grammaticalization is a type of semantic change whereby an element or lexical construction changes to one that fulfills a grammatical function, or a grammatical element develops a new grammatical function.

Clustering: Clustering is an important process within Machine learning. This process develops a fundamental action that allows the automated learning algorithms to adequately train and understand the data with which they develop their activities.

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Reactive listening

Reactive listening: Reactive listening is a relatively rare skill because it involves not only listening to what the other person is saying, but also paying attention to the underlying feelings and emotions.
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Intensive listening

Intensive listening: Intensive listening is mainly focused on short listening exercises. While they usually only take a few minutes, they offer intense and focused practice.

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Responsive listening:

Responsive listening: Responsive listening involves listening to a small amount of a language, such as a command, a question, or a greeting. After listening, the student is expected to develop an appropriate short response.

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Redundancy

Redundancy: redundancy refers to information that is expressed more than once. it includes multiple matching features in morphology, multiple phonemic distinguishing features in phonology, or the use of multiple words to express a single idea in rhetoric.

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Colloquialism

Colloquialism: Colloquialism or is the linguistic style used for casual communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the language commonly used in conversation and other informal contexts. Colloquialism is characterized by extensive use of interjections and other expressive devices.

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False start

False start: False starts are not as common as repetitions corrections. They occur most often when a conversation becomes intense, with many speakers speaking at once, or after a speaker is interrupted. 

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Corrections

Correction: a change that rectifies an error or inaccuracy.
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Inflection

Inflection: An inflection expresses grammatical categories with affixation such as prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, and transfix, apophony such as Indo-European ablaut, or other modifications

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Pause

Pause: It is a component of the speed of speech, in the listening comprehension of the students of a second language.

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Tone

Tone: It refers to changes in tone that are made to affect the meaning of words and phrases. Tone is a quality of the voice produced by the vibrations of the vocal cords.

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Register

Register: Language register is the level of formality with which you listen. Different situations and people call for different registers. This is a concept I was talking about recently with some of my graduate students who dislike the idea of ​​writing with a formal tone.

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Stress

Stress: Stress in listening is a part in which learners tend a lot to fail due to the lack of skill 

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Pace

Pace: Pace is a noun that means "the speed at which something happens". Some say that life in the city has a faster pace because everyone is in a hurry and there are many interesting things to do.

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Proprierty

Propriety: An example of something that would be described as owner is the pronunciation of a word that you have on your possessions.

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Jargon

Jargon: It is a linguistic variety of the standard language and sometimes incomprehensible to its speakers, frequently used by different social groups with the intention of hiding the true meaning of their words, at their convenience and need.

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References

Anvar N. (2016)Teaching Listening Comprehension: Bottom-Up Approach https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1114600.pdf 

Catherine M. (2005) Listening: Top down https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/listening-top-down-bottom#:~:text=The%20way%20you%20listened%20to,what%20came%20before%20and%20after.

Xu B. (october 2017) Morphological Awareness and Advanced EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/228475181.pdf 


Mitterer H. (2013 May)How phonological reductions sometimes help the listener https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22799281/ 

Richard M. (january 2019) Definition and Examples of Grammaticalization https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-grammaticalization-1690822

Craig B. (july 2006) What the heck is Responsive Listening?!? https://www.toolbox.com/tech/enterprise-software/blogs/what-the-heck-is-responsive-listening-072106/

Anna M. (May 2013)Selective Listening Explained https://training.simplicable.com/training/new/what-is-selective-listening

Alex W. How and why to use extensive listening in the classroom https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/235276065.pdf

Rachel B. (2003)Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension

Abdolmajid H. (August 2010) The Effect of Speech Rate on Listening Comprehension of EFL learner https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265988636_The_Effect_of_Speech_Rate_on_Listening_Comprehension_of_EFL_learners 

Jacobs G. The Effect of Pausing on Listening Comprehension. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED304018 

Listening Skills And Sentence Stress In English https://www.wannalisn.com/listening-skills/ 

Dilek B. (March 2020) The Effects of Different Accents on Listening Comprehension in EFL 339626876 _The_Effects_of_Different_Accents_on_Listening_Comprehension_in_EFL_Classroom_Settings_basligiyla_2nd_International_Black_Sea_Conference_on_Language_Education


https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/jargon