INTENSIVE LISTENING

• Listening is what you do in the

classroom
• The goal of intensive listening is to
focus on a certain detail.
• This focusing on detail is often
motivated by you having to answer
a question on a listening exercise or
test.
• Intensive listening can be quite hard
to do and you may not be able to
answer all the questions at first.

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• Often Intensive listening exercises will go through the following stages:

Before you listen During the listening After the listening

You will have to complete  You may be asked.

Sometimes you may be asked to a listening exercise, which  Or you may be.
look at a picture or title and you will generally have two
have to write down what you types of tasks.
think about the topic or note
down what you already know.  The First
 The Second

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 Suggestions for Intensive Listening Practice

Use Videos: Is a fun, flexible

Use learning websites
and complete option that
with audio components:
you can use for intensive
These websites brief
listening practice•
audio activities

Do guided activities that

force you to focus on the
basic parts of the language:
Guided listening practice
with questions to test your
skills will help you pay more
attention to the activity itself

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EXTENSIVE LISTENING

• All types of listening activities that allow

learners to receive a lot of comprehensible
and enjoyable listening input.
• In order for the students to be willing to
engage in sustained listening practice, the
language must be comprehensible and the
contents of the materials interesting and
enjoyable.
• This kind of sustained practice can provide
learners a network of linguistic information
from which learners can “build up the
necessary knowledge for using the
language”.

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Benefits of extensive listening

It can enhance learners’ ability

to deal with normal speech It can improve their word It can enhance their bottom-up
rate. recognition skill. listening skills, in particular the skills of
recognizing word boundaries.

Finally, extensive listening can give students

a lot of opportunities to experience a high
level of language comprehension.

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 Suggestions for Extensive Listening Practice

Listen to audiobooks:
Audiobooks are excellent for
extensive listening practice
because you’ll undoubtedly Watch authentic media. Watching
need to focus on overall movies, TV and other entertainment
meaning rather than individual is useful for extensive listening
words.

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