LISTENING STRATEGIES

Learning how to listen allows us to communicate with the other people. Moreover, we are able to understand native speakers of this foreign language. However, learning how to listen doesn’t mean we have to be able to get every word that we hear. People like me that are visual learners listening are not their strong point. In order to avoid it I’m going to tell you there some strategies in order to improve our listening.

Firstly, we can practice listening if we listen to songs in this foreign language. We also can listen to radio programs, films or stories. Another strategy is to communicate with native speakers in other to associate words with its pronunciation. 

Secondly, before doing a listening exercise you should read the questions in order to have an idea about its topic. Another strategy is to remember what you know about that topic.

Online exercises should be a good way to practice listening. Some exercises have also some questions in order to understand them better. It’s important not to do high level listening because we aren’t going to understand anything.

Finally it should be perfectly if we do a dictation once a day or regularly. Teachers can help us to do that but you will improve so much your listening if you make listening exercises on your own because you have to do them regularly.

To conclude, listening is related with reading because in order to make listening more understandable you should make some notes. Furthermore, with listening you are going to improve your pronunciation.