Top Down and Bottom Up Processing

I know a few of you were unsure about these terms but I am sure you are already encouraging this in your classrooms.

This article is an interesting read about the two processes

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/listening-top-down-bottom

To read it you might want to take a top-down approach, reflect on the definition I gave and some of the ideas we discussed to activate your background knowledge.

Also you will need to piece the words together to get the meaning so you will need bottom up processing. :-)