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Hi everyone!
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Today we're gonna talk about how to improve English listening proficiency.
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Listening might be the most difficult skill to learn out of the four language skills.
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And teachers don't really "teach" how to listen because listening is considered like a passive
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skill
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Good language learners are the ones who are better at using their metacognitive skills
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So what are the metacognitive skills......
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So what are the metacognitive skills?
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It includes planning, monitoring and evaluating, so on and so forth
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In other words, metacognitive skills is the ability to use the things that you already
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know to learn something that you don't know
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So today I'm going to share some really practical and useful metacognitive skills that you can
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apply when you are doing your listening comprehension test or when you are talking to other people
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Basically improving your listening ability through some strategies
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So without further ado, let's get into the video
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So the first strategy is to guess
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When you're listening to a speech or conversation, there are many reasons why you can't understand
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maybe it's because of a local accent or maybe an unknown vocabulary or just the noisy background
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When this happens, you should use the information that you already know and make a guess quickly
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So how can you make a guess
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First, you can guess the speech of the word
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Is it a noun or is it a verb
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If it is a noun, it is likely to be a person, place or object
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Second, you can guess according to the context
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Where does the conversation or speech take place?
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So these are all the clues that you can use to make a rapid guess
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Strategy number 2, to anticipate when you're talking to someone or when you're
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listening to a speech, you might anticipate what is going to come up
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For example, I live in Montreal right now and people talk about the weather constantly
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so when I meet someone, I am somehow prepared to talk about the snow or how it ruined my
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nice boots and at the same time, I would also expect
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that the other person would talk about the fact that it is -15 degrees outside right
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now Is it?
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Let me see.
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It is -15 degrees outside.
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Right now, huh, when I am filming.
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Anticipating can help the listener to be prepared and also have more time to organize
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Three, to keep to the point.
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In fact, it is impossible for the listener to hear every single word in the sentence
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So it is more important to know what is important and more relevant
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So how can you do that?
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First, listen with a purpose.
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So you should think yo yourself: what is the conversation or speech mainly about.
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For example, when you're listening to the new, try to understand where the incident
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happened, when did it happen and how did it happen.
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So when you are focusing on these questions, you are more likely to capture the important
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parts of the speech.
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Second, listen to the first sentence and transitional words in the speech
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We all know that the first sentence of the paragraph is the topic sentence.
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And the topic sentence shows the central idea of the whole paragraph.
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Also, the transitional words show the thinking of the speaker.
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Following these targets can help the students focus on the main point of the talk instead
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of peripheral details that are distracting.
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In the end, I just wanna say that listening training is not about understanding every
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single word in the sentence.
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Listening is not that passive as you think.
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According to research, if the learners' metacognitive awareness increases, not just listening comprehension,
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overall language proficiency increases.
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So metacognitive awareness or strategies are all really important and should be emphasized
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in classrooms.
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Besides developing your language, the learner should also learn to guess, to anticipate
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and to keep it to the point.
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You should come and say bye.
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You should come and say bye to everyone.
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Ok!
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So these are the three metacognitive strategies that I wanna share with you guys today and
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she's here to say goodbye.
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I hope you've enjoyed all my videos on second language acquisition research.
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And if you're interested.....awwww she's so warmmmmm
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Anyways, if you're interested, of course everything will be linked in the description box below.
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It's great making these videos and I'm really happy that I'm learning about this right now
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and hopefully I'll be sharing more.
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Ok, that's about it for this time and I'll see you guys soon!
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Bye~~ Awww you're leaving neh.....oh!
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Bye!
