Guest Contribution on Listening

A FRESH LOOK AT LISTENING  Şule Aslan, BUSEL.
Listening is one of the most challenging skills, both to teach and to learn. Every student in my class had difficulty with listening and they could not go beyond answering comprehension questions or filling in the blanks. As there are no rules, as in grammar, or any ‘redos’ as in other language skills (i.e. re-reading or re-writing), they find listening especially frustrating. They never paid much attention to either pre- or post-activities, but focused only on while-listening tasks. They always felt nervous, fearful, and pessimistic, as if the listening tasks were testing their knowledge and they were being graded. Click here to read on

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