Language Learning Methods Of Listening

Stressors are demands made by the internal or external environment that upset balance, thus affecting physical and psychological well-being and requiring action to restore balance (Lazarus & Cohen, 1977). Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, stress was considered to be a transactional phenomenon dependant on the meaning of the stimulus to the perceiver (Lazarus, 1966; Antonovsky, 1979).

Cognitive strategies allow the person to decipher stress in a different way. A person can reduce the significance of the strain, or maximize the

Listening Skills - How we interpret both the verbal and non-verbal messages sent by others.

Stress arises as a transaction between person and environment, it begins as an imbalance between demand, either physical or psychological, and response capability under conditions where failure to meet demands has important consequences, likely resulting in a loss. Stress can bring out our best performance or it can cause people to crumple under pressure. Therefore an important factor in how an individual responds and performs under stressful conditions is their perception or interpretation and appraisal of the situation and their own emotional response. There have been debates among experts as to whether an individual initially reacts to stress emotionally or cognitively, however it’s commonly understood that too little or too much stress can be harmful especially over longer periods. The right amount of stress is motivating, while too much can cause physical and psychological problems. Excessive chronic stress can result in disability effecting physical, emotional and mental wellness.

A conundrum about teachers’ attitudes towards students as listeners is that although most teachers assume students come to school knowing how to listen, those same teachers agree that students need to learn more about listening since it is a skill crucial for learning. Four types of listening have been distinguished according to an individual’s purpose for listening. Those types are: discriminative listening, aesthetic listening, efferent listening, and critical listening. From early years, students take part in discriminative and aesthetic listening, as these types of listening create the early groundwork for learning to read. Students engage in efferent listening when they begin to understand that they listen to learn specific information

The main concept in the Why we don’t listen better. This text examines effective methods that the talker and listener can use while communicating. Petersen, The author demonstrates the importance of listening while communicating he stated it is essential to eliminate barriers that may distract the listener from effectively listening to the message that the talker is trying to deliver(Petersen, 2015 ). The listener body language will display if they are interested in the conversation if the listener is not interested they will interrupt or change the subject(Petersen,). The talker will leave the conversation not feeling satisfied due to the fact they were interrupted. Communication is a process that requires two

In order to improve students’ listening comprehension they should use their prior knowledge. In a typical reading lesson there are “pre” activities, “while” activities, and “post” activities. In reading learners can skim a text quickly to get a good idea what it’s about, but listeners cannot skim. In listening lesson also has “pre”, “while” and “post” listening tasks. Each of these tasks is very important in order to ensure that the students understand

Listening is one of the important four skills that need to be mastered when acquiring a second foreign language. Among the four skills, listening is recognized as the most difficult one (Young, 2012). Students’ difficulties in listening comprehension may start from the bottom stage, such as they can’t recognize a sound that they may know if it is in written form or they can’t comprehend complex and long speeches. If they hear a sound that they don’t know, sometimes they can’t rely on dictionary to know the meaning as they can’t figure out its spelling. Given those problems, however, listening comprehension still received the least attention in the teaching of Second Language learning. Generally, it is the least skill that taught by the teacher in school. Listening

They need to put their own thoughts aside, be there mentally not just physically, make a conscious mindful effort to listen, take adequate time to listen, don’t rush the speaker, be patient, and lastly be open minded (Beebe et al., 2001). It is important to stop and think about all the distractions that prevent you from listening. The biggest distraction is your mouth. The authors state “you have been given two ears and one mouth” (Beebe et al., 2001, p. 126). Listeners need to shut one and use two in order to listen more efficiently. The book references a key solution to helping listeners stop with the distractions and listen to the speaker. They suggest that listeners stop their own thoughts and put themselves in the speaker’s shoes. Ask yourself this question “If I were the speaker, what should I be thinking right now?” To be aware of your own thoughts and actions calls for more efficient listening.

This essay will explore the different of listening skill as well as compare on improving your learning listening skills, first is a text reading from Brookfield’s chapter 5 Keep Discussion Going Through Questioning, Listening, and Responding the second is an article text from. Crown Library Database Implementing Some Simple Strategies to Enhance Learner’s Listening Skills. By John J. Caro. Overall, in which I found were very Interesting compared to the text reading, in chapter five, Keep Discussion Going Through Questioning, Listening and Responding. the similarly maybe the same therefore, the listening skills, may demonstration maybe, different. From way of learning to another way of listening but the analyses in the article have

There is an old parable about why human beings have two ears, but only one tongue. Many people may ask well, why do we have two ears and only one tongue? The answer to this question entails simple math; so we have to listen twice as much as we speak. Listening and communication is critical to learning. According to a study, approximately 70% of students scoring high on listening tests are considered honors students or excel in learning and life (Janusik). Today listening and communication is a struggle because of the judgment, electronic fallbacks, and the simple misunderstanding of communication.

According to Cohen (1996a), these strategies constitute the steps or actions selected by learners to either improve the learning of an L2, the use of it, or both. In the process of language learning and teaching, the administration of listening strategy training is significant in helping language learners for extracting meaning when trying to understand academic lectures. According to Vandergrift (1999), listening strategies are mental processes that language learners are involved in order to understand the oral texts. These mental processes include selecting input, constructing meaning and relating existing knowledge to performing tasks (O’Malley et al., 1989; Rost, 2002). Also, language learners are not inactively receiving input while listening, rather, they need to actively choose, employ and evaluate their listening strategy use to achieve successful comprehension (Rubin, 1995). Listening strategy training may encourage learners to assume a maximum amount of responsibility for what they learn and how they learn

Listening seems to be a simple process; however, it is not easy as it could be and sometimes it is neglected in language teaching in a classroom (Richard & Schmidt, 2010). This is because

The aim of this essay is to talk about listening skills while at the same time we talk about communication and how complicated can be to communicate, since there are many obstacles to have an effective communication, because there are verbal and nonverbal communication. In reality, now a day’s communication isn’t just about wordy communication in our daily only, but non-verbal as well. It is said that effective communication is indeed like building a house of any good and healthy relationship. Also there are other factors like intercultural communication and this complicates an effective communication since every culture have different ways to communicate. Also show how all these communication problems makes it more difficult to focus, leading to a poor listening skill.

In this research there are three basic things that have been focused, effect of audio-visual aids, speaking skills and listening skills. Listening is a basic and the first primary skill to which everyone should be familiar with that in order to getting the idea of speakers. Listening means to pay conscious attention to the sound or voice of the speaker. This skill is also known as passive or receptive skill.