Stage of Listening Instruction
Planning/predicting stage
I. Once students know topic and text type they predict types of information and possible words they may hear.
First verification stage
2. Students verify initial hypotheses, correct as required, and note additional information understood.
3. Students compare what they have written with peers, modify as required, establish what needs resolution and decide on details that still need special attention.
Second verification stage
4. Students verify points of disagreement, make corrections, and write down additional details understood.
5. Class discussion in which all contribute to reconstruction of the text's main points and most pertinent details, interspersed with reflections on how students arrived at the meaning of certain words or parts of the text.