Responsive Listening Autonomous Listening

Responsive Listening is the kind of listening that is focused on the listeners' responses to what they heard. For example, during a session, a teacher might ask a student what he or she understood from an interview played during the session. Another example would be before starting the session the teacher might give some commands to the students such as: please, close the door, can you please turn on the light?

It allows learners to develop listening exercises independently. Listeners choose freely which topics, kind of listening, language aspects and purpose the listening is focused on. For instance, if a learner is interested in living abroad his self – motivation should move him to learn about traveling options or exchange programs. Another example can be, a student notices his difficulties when pronouncing certain words, so he decided to look for tips to improve.

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Accuracy, fluency and complexity.

Based on the reading, Accuracy can be described as the correct use of language structures when producing a message. In other words, it measures the correct use of grammatical structures. Then, Fluency is the ability to access the language knowledge and particularities to express a message quickly and smoothly without making pauses that can interfere with the comprehension and accuracy of the message.

that can interfere with the comprehension and accuracy of the message. Finally, in simple words complexity is the level of the language structures and functions used when communicating.

Tamaris, suggests when facing situations where learners are not confident, the speakers’ teacher should create activities based on their language knowledge and that allow them to think about the proper and possible responses. The main goal of these activities is to improve students’ confidence and to promote fluency when using the language. This means correction should be subtle and if possible, it should be avoided.