Answer to Question #197615 in English for hangwy

Question

The listening process involves the use of either top-down and bottom-up strategies. Identify the strategy used in each of the following scenarios. (4 marks) 8 3.1 Grade 3 learners listen to a teacher’s instruction on how to make a kite. 3.2 Audiences listening to a radio talk show debate on strategies to implement at schools to prevent the spread of corona virus amongst learners. 3.3 Mourners listen to a programme director reading an obituary of a family member at a memorial service. 3.4 Students listen to a lecture on derivational morphology. 

Answer 1

Top down listening happens when we use background knowledge to make sense of what we are listening to. We already know a fair amount about the topic, and the story or information we are getting fits into a previously established schema.

Bottom up listening, on the other hand, happens when we understand language sound by sound or word by word, with less use of background knowledge.

3.1 Top-down strategy.

3.2 Bottom-up strategies.

3.3 Bottom-up strategies.

3.4 Top-down strategy.