Lsrwt Sub Skills
Listening sub skills
1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues in utterances and spoken text
2. Recognizing and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features]
3. Understanding relationships within the sentence: the syntactic and morphological forms characteristic of spoken language
4. Understanding relationships between parts of text and utterances through cohesive devices [especially grammatical cohesive devices such as reference]
5. Understanding relationships between parts of text by recognizing discourse markers [especially for transition and conclusion of ideas, for anticipation of objections or contrary views and for turn-taking]
6. Understanding the communicative function and value of utterances with and without explicit markers [e.g. definition and exemplification]
7. Understanding conceptual meaning in spoken text and utterances [e.g. comparison, degree, cause & effect, result, and audience & purpose]
8. Understanding attitudinal meaning in spoken text and utterances [especially ability to recognise the speaker's attitude towards the listener and the topic by intonation]
9. Identifying the main points or important information in discourse [especially through vocal underlining and verbal cues]
10. Distinguishing main ideas from supporting detail [the whole & its parts, fact & opinion, statement & example, and proposition & argument]
11. Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information
12. Understanding ideas and information in spoken text and utterances which are not explicitly stated [e.g. through making inferences]
13. Interpreting spoken text by going outside information in the text to information not contained in the text [e.g. through picking up exophoric reference]
14. Transferring and transforming information in speech to diagrammatic display [e.g. through completing a
1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues in utterances and spoken text
2. Recognizing and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features]
3. Understanding relationships within the sentence: the syntactic and morphological forms characteristic of spoken language
4. Understanding relationships between parts of text and utterances through cohesive devices [especially grammatical cohesive devices such as reference]
5. Understanding relationships between parts of text by recognizing discourse markers [especially for transition and conclusion of ideas, for anticipation of objections or contrary views and for turn-taking]
6. Understanding the communicative function and value of utterances with and without explicit markers [e.g. definition and exemplification]
7. Understanding conceptual meaning in spoken text and utterances [e.g. comparison, degree, cause & effect, result, and audience & purpose]
8. Understanding attitudinal meaning in spoken text and utterances [especially ability to recognise the speaker's attitude towards the listener and the topic by intonation]
9. Identifying the main points or important information in discourse [especially through vocal underlining and verbal cues]
10. Distinguishing main ideas from supporting detail [the whole & its parts, fact & opinion, statement & example, and proposition & argument]
11. Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information
12. Understanding ideas and information in spoken text and utterances which are not explicitly stated [e.g. through making inferences]
13. Interpreting spoken text by going outside information in the text to information not contained in the text [e.g. through picking up exophoric reference]
14. Transferring and transforming information in speech to diagrammatic display [e.g. through completing a