Among
many skills needed in learning English, listening plays a significant role as
the foundation to acquire the language. Not only will great listening skill
enable you to improve your pronunciation, but it also helps you with nearly
every aspect of English communication. Accordingly, improving your listening
skill is fundamental to master English, try these tips:
Practice listening English every day |
Learning
English pronunciation rules will help you improve your listening. When pronouncing words incorrectly, you will find
many difficulties in listening comprehension. However, the words and sentences
you have listened are very familiar to you. Understand how native English
speakers speak is the golden key to listen English better. Therefore, you
should focus on pronunciation, especially stress, rhythm, connected speech and
intonation. The easiest and most effective way to learn how to pronounce words
correctly is to listen to native-speakers. Besides, you
should use dictionaries with accurate phonetic transcription like Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman Advanced American Dictionary to
learn new words and their pronunciation.
Listening
for the main ideas help you to understand what the speaker is saying. Before
listening, you should read questions and instructions carefully to predict what
you are going to hear and focusing on vocabulary in advance. Futhermore, while
listening, you need to focus on content words (nouns, main verbs and
adjectives) to identify the main ideas. These words are usually stressed and
repeated while function words (prepositions, pronouns, etc) are usually
unstressed. In addition, note - taking is a powerful aid to help you
concentrate and record. A key to take useful notes is to develop a system of
symbols and abbreviations. For examples: “=” means "equal", “Fe” is
"iron"…etc. After
listening and taking note sfor the first time, I usually raise questions to
listen to and link intended information. Based on familiar question words:
“who, what, when, where and how” to put related question words, I can easily
listen more comprehensively and effectively.
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Learners
should develop the predicting strategies based on the conversation context and
word stress. One cause leading poor listening is low concentration which makes
us difficult to predict and retain the information we need. You will be more
interested in predicting topics, speakers, places, key words, and event
sequences.
You should choose your
suitable reliable listening sources and practice listening everyday. There are
good reliable sources online like BBC, CNN, VOA…and personal sources such as
CDs or video. Moreover, all you need is to spend 15 minutes per day developing
your listening skills, which helps you familiarize with English pronunciation.
With the base of large vocabulary, learners can listen to
English better. You can build your vocabulary as follows: select a theme to
learn vocabulary, use images and sounds to remember the words faster, take a
notebook to write down new words and phrases, find other English words with the
same root, and definitely review the new vocabulary you have learned
constantly. Remember to practice as many words with your friends to build a
powerful vocabulary.
In
conclusion, to listen English effectively takes a lot patience, dedication,
determination as well as effort. To listen better, you should improve your
pronunciation, listen to the main ideas, choose reliable sources, practice
English listening every day and build a large vocabulary. Nothing is
impossible, so what are you waiting for? Start boosting your listening skills
today!
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