Today we're gonna talk about how to improve English listening proficiency.

Listening might be the most difficult skill to learn out of the four language skills.

And teachers don't really "teach" how to listen because listening is considered like a passive

skill

Good language learners are the ones who are better at using their metacognitive skills

So what are the metacognitive skills......

So what are the metacognitive skills?

It includes planning, monitoring and evaluating, so on and so forth

In other words, metacognitive skills is the ability to use the things that you already

know to learn something that you don't know

So today I'm going to share some really practical and useful metacognitive skills that you can

apply when you are doing your listening comprehension test or when you are talking to other people

Basically improving your listening ability through some strategies

So without further ado, let's get into the video

So the first strategy is to guess

When you're listening to a speech or conversation, there are many reasons why you can't understand

maybe it's because of a local accent or maybe an unknown vocabulary or just the noisy background

When this happens, you should use the information that you already know and make a guess quickly

So how can you make a guess

First, you can guess the speech of the word

Is it a noun or is it a verb

If it is a noun, it is likely to be a person, place or object

Second, you can guess according to the context

Where does the conversation or speech take place?

So these are all the clues that you can use to make a rapid guess

Strategy number 2, to anticipate when you're talking to someone or when you're

listening to a speech, you might anticipate what is going to come up

For example, I live in Montreal right now and people talk about the weather constantly

so when I meet someone, I am somehow prepared to talk about the snow or how it ruined my

nice boots and at the same time, I would also expect

that the other person would talk about the fact that it is -15 degrees outside right

now Is it?

Let me see.

It is -15 degrees outside.

Right now, huh, when I am filming.

Anticipating can help the listener to be prepared and also have more time to organize

Three, to keep to the point.

In fact, it is impossible for the listener to hear every single word in the sentence

So it is more important to know what is important and more relevant

So how can you do that?

First, listen with a purpose.

So you should think yo yourself: what is the conversation or speech mainly about.

For example, when you're listening to the new, try to understand where the incident

happened, when did it happen and how did it happen.

So when you are focusing on these questions, you are more likely to capture the important

parts of the speech.

Second, listen to the first sentence and transitional words in the speech

We all know that the first sentence of the paragraph is the topic sentence.

And the topic sentence shows the central idea of the whole paragraph.

Also, the transitional words show the thinking of the speaker.

Following these targets can help the students focus on the main point of the talk instead

of peripheral details that are distracting.

In the end, I just wanna say that listening training is not about understanding every

single word in the sentence.

Listening is not that passive as you think.

According to research, if the learners' metacognitive awareness increases, not just listening comprehension,

overall language proficiency increases.

So metacognitive awareness or strategies are all really important and should be emphasized

in classrooms.

Besides developing your language, the learner should also learn to guess, to anticipate

and to keep it to the point.

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You should come and say bye to everyone.

Ok!

So these are the three metacognitive strategies that I wanna share with you guys today and

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