Linguistics 2248A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extensive Reading, General Idea

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 2248A/B
• Professor: N/A

Document Summary

Reading refers to a skill by which a person observes a series of symbols, letters, punctuation marks, extracts the information, and understands their meaning in a written document. It is a complex process by which a person can identify and understand the different sounds in words or sentences to respond appropriately. Write and give examples of the different listening- sub skills (listening for a gist, specific information, detail, extensive, etc ) Ii) listening for gist: it is about listening to the entire speech to get a general idea of the main topic being talked about; this can be seen when we listen to the news on radio or television. Iii) listening for specific information: it refers to listening to obtain certain information, for this a distinction must be made between relevant information and information that is not. For example, pay attention to climate information only from our city.