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Description
Undeveloped listening skills seriously hamper one’s ability to learn a foreign language. Research tells us that explicitly teaching the skills of listening helps students to improve their comprehension abilities, and yet listening is often left on its own to develop as some sort of felicitous by-product of input.This presentation will focus on ways to teach listening that help students develop the ability and confidence to listen and comprehend natural English outside the classroom.
Summary
Undeveloped listening skills seriously hamper one’s ability to learn a foreign language. Research tells us that explicitly teaching the skills of listening helps students to improve their comprehension abilities, and yet listening is often left on its own to develop as some sort of felicitous by-product of input.This presentation will focus on ways to teach listening that help students develop the ability and confidence to listen and comprehend natural English outside the classroom.
| Teaching Context | College and university education |
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