CALP Academic Listening Skills Flashcards
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What does 'active listening' mean in a CALP academic context?
Answer: Engaging cognitively to monitor comprehension, identify key ideas, and construct meaning
Active listening in CALP contexts involves intentional cognitive engagement to monitor understanding and construct meaning from academic discourse.
A student hears the lecture phrase: 'This phenomenon, though counterintuitive, is well-documented in the literature.' What CALP skill helps them understand this?
Answer: Parsing complex syntactic structures with embedded clauses
Understanding sentences with embedded clauses and academic vocabulary requires CALP-level syntactic processing during academic listening tasks.
How do discourse connectors like 'however,' 'therefore,' and 'consequently' support CALP academic listening comprehension?
Answer: They signal logical relationships between ideas, helping listeners track argument structure
Discourse connectors signal the logical structure of academic arguments, and recognizing them is essential for CALP-level listening comprehension.
A CALP-proficient listener recognizes that a professor's tone shifts when presenting a contested claim versus an established fact. This skill is called:
Answer: Pragmatic competence applied to academic discourse
Recognizing how speakers use tone to signal epistemic stance involves pragmatic competence, a key component of CALP academic listening.
In CALP academic listening, what does 'metacognitive monitoring' refer to?
Answer: Actively assessing one's own comprehension during listening and adjusting strategies accordingly
Metacognitive monitoring during CALP listening means actively tracking whether you understand and applying repair strategies when comprehension breaks down.
Which activity best prepares students for CALP-level academic listening in US content classrooms?
Answer: Listening to academic podcasts and responding analytically in writing
Academic podcasts with analytical response tasks expose students to authentic CALP listening contexts involving formal register and complex content.