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Teaching Listening Comprehension in the Armenian Classroom Using Bottom-up and Top-down Strategies
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Chalabyan, Susanna ; Sahakyan, Arpine
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listening ; teaching listening ; listening comprehension ; bottom-up strategy ; top-down strategy
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The paper investigates bottom-up and top-down strategies widely implemented in teaching listening comprehension. Being constituent parts of cognitive strategies, these two processes have been widely discussed and argued in pedagogical and linguistic literature and implemented in ESL (English as a Second Language) classrooms to boost the listening skills of students. Some elements of these strategies, namely lexical knowledge, prior knowledge, the ability to make deductions and inferring the meaning, are discussed in the paper, underlining their relevant contribution to the excelling listening competence of Second language (L2) students. The research carried out by outstanding scholars has been investigated and introduced in the paper. The aim of the research is to reveal the efficiency of these two strategies when implied in a classroom. The advantages and some disadvantages of bottom-up and top-down strategies are discussed and shown in the paper, emphasizing that only their simultaneous leverage is the answer to enhancing the listening comprehension of L2 students. Being mutually reinforcing and interwoven they benefit to the improvement of listening comprehension when being used in a balanced way.
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Երևան
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Նյութը վերցված է Հայաստանի պետական տնտեսագիտական համալսարանի կայքից։