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| Perdita Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4759 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 2 17 September 2020 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
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I have some doubts about the listening exercise, in which the student listens to the
same recording over and over again. It is recommended as a good method of practising and improving listening skills. However, it seems to me that it is only good for lower levels of a given language, because if you need to listen to the material more than once, it means you are not really proficient in this language. Secondly, it has no bering on the real life, because it hardly happens in life that we can listen to the same utterance more than once; even if we ask the speaker to repeat what they said, they may rephrase it, and no two utterances sound exactly the same. Last but not least, it is true that the learner will understand a given fragment perfectly having listened to it umpteen times, but it applies only to this particular fragment. When they listen to something new, they have to repeat the entire process. Should not a proficient learner of a language be able to understand the listening at their first listen? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 3834 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes  Studies: German | Message 2 of 2 18 September 2020 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
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Hello, Perdita,
Value of Listening Exercises I agree with you that language-learning listening exercises achieve their greatest value at introductory and intermediate levels. On the other hand, while it may be that the value of this type of practice diminishes at the more advanced levels, my experiences suggest to me that concentrated listening to recorded conversations of native speakers in typically difficult-to-understand situations may help prepare advancing students prepare themselves for the rigours of real-life conversations. For example, while I have never come across such materials for language study, let us assume that someone has recorded a number real- life conversations involving two, four, six, and finally eight participants in several different scenarios (e.g., a business meeting, a noisy restaurant, et cetera) and that these recordings are accompanied by a complete transcript, a set of questions to validate the student’s understanding, and that the recordings can be replayed with pauses which would allow the student to role-play. Is it not possible that advancing students might benefit from practicing with such hypothetical materials? This is actually a rhetorical question because … Replacement Forum: LLORG You might wish to know that, in response to the recurring technical and administrative issues which had rendered the maintenance of this forum a very difficult task, a replacement forum was launched in July 2015 as the LANGUAGE LEARNERS' FORUM. Since that time, virtually all regular activity has ceased on this forum, it has become a seldom- consulted archive. I suggest that you register on the new forum and re-post your comments above. You’re likely to receive many more responses there than you would here. A Language Learners' Forum Edited by Speakeasy on 18 September 2020 at 2:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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