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What makes listening difficult?
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- 1Zoila Graciela Guerra Estrada 000100665 Teaching Techniques for Listening and speaking.
- 2IntroductionListening is a fundamental skill for learning a new language, it provides control to the learning process, it helps the learners to stimulates the other skills and to make them feel comfortable when they are exposed in a conversation.
- 3What Makes Listening Difficult?Stay focused can be difficult with so many factors that can distract the learner, some factors are manageable or out of our control, these factors can block comprehension for the listening skill.
- 4ClusteringSpoken Language is chunked into phrases and clauses, for clustering we break down speech into smaller groups.
- 5Clustering ExampleClustering Example :
I would like to eat a slice of pizza
Clustering:
a slice, please.
- 6Redundancyredundancy helps the hearer to process meaning by offering more time and extra information.
- 7—Redundancy Example:
See, did you notice, that we both are wearing the exact same color clothes.
- 8Reduced Forms.Reduction can be phonological, morphological; contractions or pragmatic. These reductions pose significant difficulties especially to classroom learners who may have initially been exposed to the full forms of the English language.
- 9—Reduced Forms Example:
Mum's leaving really early tomorrow, so coudja wake me at 7 when you leave for work? I mustn't be late for college again.
- 10Performance VariablesLearners have to train themselves to listen for meaning in the midst of all these distracting performance variables. Everyday casual speech by native speakers also commonly contains ungrammatical forms.
- 11—Performance Variables Example:
Hey, umm if you want, I'll show you how to make fancy letters, I mean for your poster...just saying.
- 12Colloquial Languagecolloquial language. Idioms, slang, reduced forms, shared cultural knowledge are all manifested at some point in conversations. Colloquialisms appear in both monologues and dialogues.
- 13—Colloquial Language Example:
Airhead = Silly or stupid person
When I forget where I put my keys, I feel like such an airhead!.
- 14Rate of DeliveryThe number and length of pauses used by a speaker is more crucial to comprehension that sheer speed. Learners will nevertheless eventually need to be able to comprehend language delivered at varying rates of speed and, at times, delivered with few pauses.
- 15—Rate of Delivery Example:
woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: Without her, man is nothing.
- 16Stress, Rhythm and Intonation.The prosodic features of the English language are very important for comprehension. As a stress-timed language, English speech can be a terror of some learners as mouthfuls of syllables come spilling out between stress points.
- 17—Example:
The most important words, those that are central to the message, can be emphasized:
I went to the hotel and booked a room
eliminate the words that are not emphasized and we still understand the message:
went - hotel - booked - room.
- 18InteractionConversation is especially subject to all the rules of interaction: negotiation, clarification, attending signals, turn taking, and topic nomination, maintenance, and termination.
So, to learn to listen is also to learn to respond and to continue a chain of listening and responding. - 19—Interaction Example:
Alex: Hello how are you?
Susan: I'm fine thank you. What's your name?
Alex: My name is Alex and you?
Susan: I am susan.
- 20ConclusionIt is important to develop a good listening skill in both situations, academic and non-academic, it will help the learner to enhance their Language proficiency, it requires effective teaching and innovative teaching methods .
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