How to Improve Listening Comprehension Skills
Learning a new language can be a challenge, and for some, the listening comprehension skills are much more difficult to master than the written language. Trying a variety of approaches with individuals in combination to playing to their strengths in written language, will help make headway in improving their skills. Establishing listening comprehension skills is critical to practical use of the language if trying to communicate, especially in a foreign country.
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Play music in the language for students to listen to. Introducing a new medium for listening to the spoken language can help the student absorb the information better than simply reciting the language.
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Provide the lyrics to the music in combination with the music itself. This allows the students to combine their reading strengths with their listening comprehension to help enhance their listening skills.
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Choose a familiar play, show or movie script and distribute the script in the foreign language.
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Assign parts to the group and have them act out the play or scene. Using the language in dialogue, especially a dialogue they are familiar with, such as from a popular movie, will help them to absorb the language and increase their listening comprehension.
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Transition to only allowing the foreign language to be spoken in the classroom. This forces the student to listen intently to all spoken communication and think critically to communicate with others.
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