Listening

●Explain the two listening techniques: top-down vs. bottom-up and tell us when you employ each technique for what purpose.

Top-daow
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. (When usually use this strategy in order to acquire whole meaning of text or speech)

Bottom-up
comprehension is achieved by dividing and decoding the sound signal bit by bit. The ability to separate the stream of speech into individual words becomes more important here, if we are to recognise, for example, the name of a street or an instruction to take a particular bus.
( when usually use this strategy to get specific information or sfecific information)


●What is podcasting? Discuss the benefits of doing podacasting for L2 learners.
A podcast is the name of a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program. Podcasts are published on the internet as MP3 files. Interested listeners are able to download these MP3 files onto their personal computer or personal MP3 player of any type The files can be listened to at the convenience of the listener. Learners can listen over and over to any material that is of interest to them.

Benefits
students can get mpe file easily. That is very important. When i was a studnet of high school, i tried to study listening. There are problems, however, i coudn't have listening file. I had to buy.
The most important thing was that there are no file wich i wanted.
Through podacasting, i can make a mp3 file which i want.