Breaking The Back of Focus Listening
Listening to English is more difficult for students who are not English majors. Many students have associated listening courses with pain and boredom and often complain that they benefit little from listening lessons. So, it is necessary for English teachers to realize the importance of how to make listening classes more interesting and to know how to motivate students so that they can make progress in listening comprehension.
2. Definition of the English listening
3. Factors constitutes the difficulty of listening comprehension
4. Implication for listening instruction
5. Listening Comprehension Strategies
6. The process of English listening
Listening is so important in our daily life that more and more foreign language teachers have become concerned with developing students¡ listening ability. However, few students would say it is easy to develop listening. There are two main reasons. First, since listening is a mental activity carried out in one¡s head, it is very difficult to know exactly what mental processes are involved as one tries to extract meaning from an aural text. Hence the difficulty for a student to monitor the listening processes of his or detect the problems might encounter. Second, to listen successfully, listener should not only understand the language itself but have knowledge of such things as the topic, the context, the speakers and so on. Therefore, when studying listening, a student needs to tackle more and more language problems. However, given the significance of listening in real life, every day we listen to different people for various purposes and in a variety of situations.
To help us become successful listener, you should, first and foremost, make sure you understand what successful listening is. As an English learner, have you ever thought about that? If not, why not do it now? Different people may give different definitions to successful listen...