Daily bread 01/23/2018

• Eleven intervention strategies for underachieving L2-listeners | The Language Gym

  • 1. Caveat: No quick fix
  • to improve substantially you will need three to four months of systematic work of the kind envisaged below. Listening skills are notoriously slow to develop because they require the mastery of a vast array of challenging micro-skills that must be executed at very high speed in the brain (words lingering in working memory for only about 2 seconds). Hence, you need to be systematic, patient and resilient, mindful of the fact that the improvements your students will be making will be invisible for several weeks to come but will definitely show up in the end.
  • 2.Daily exposure to substantive amounts of aural input
  • practise listening on a daily basis
  • they are not processing aural input often enough and/or not in a way that is conducive to learning.

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