- General Listening Activities
- Start with recordings on familiar topics and gradually progress to topics that are new to you.
- Listen to conversations, television shows and movies, and then listen to programs with academic content, such as NPR and BBC broadcasts. Start with short segments and progress to longer segments.
- For beginners, listen first with English subtitles, if they are available. Then, without subtitles, listen for the main ideas and key details.
- Listen again to understand the connections between ideas, the structure of the talk and/or the speakers’ attitudes and to distinguish fact from opinion.
- If you like to listen on an english-based music, this is a good thing to learn from. Listen to them and search the meaning at dictionary for the more difficult words.
- Targeted Activities
- Listening for Basic Comprehension
- Comprehend the main idea, major points and important details related to the main idea.
- Listening for Pragmatic Understanding
- Recognize a speaker’s attitude and degree of certainty
- Recognize a speaker’s function or purpose
- Connecting and Synthesizing Information
- Recognize the organization of information presented
- Understand the relationships between ideas presented (for example: compare/contrast, cause/effect or steps in a process)
- Make inferences and draw conclusions based on what is implied in the material
- Make connections among pieces of information in a conversation or lecture
- Recognize topic changes in lectures and conversations, and recognize introductions and conclusions in lectures Listening Section Description
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