awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.3, 2014An Investigation of Top-down Listening Processing Skills TaughtHammadTable 1. Frequencies and percentages of top-down listening skills included in English forPalestine 12SubskillUnit1Unit2Unit3Unit4Unit5Unit6Unit7Unit8Unit9Unit10TotalFrequencyTotalPercentage1.Listening formain ideas11111-1-21926%2.Listening forsupportingdetails32222324312468.5%3.Predictinginformation----------4.Sequencinginformation orevents------------5. Makingsuggestions----1-1---25.5%6..Drawinginferences------------7. Generatingquestions8.Summarizing-------------------------9. Recognizinga point of viewTotal-4-3-3-3-4-3-4-4-5-2-35-100Table 1 shows that English for Palestine 12 does not include any top-down listeningskills other than 'listening for supporting details', 'listening for main ideas', and 'makingsuggestions'. As shown in the above table, 'listening for supporting details' got the highest scorefollowed by 'listening for main ideas', and then 'making suggestions'. Table 2 shows thefrequencies and percentages of top-down listening skills included in English for Palestine 11.Arab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org261