What makes us difficult in listening English?

1. Let's say you have a conversation with an English speaking person and if you have litte background knowledge, or topic familiarity while talking, you may stand a high possibility of having difficulty in listening. That is, if you not that familiar with what's going on, you can lost interest in your conversation.

2. If you have poor Enlgish vocabularies and do not know much of English vocabularies, it would be very difficult to understand what an interlocutor say, even though you try to listen. It's because of the fact that you do not know enough words to understand a sentence. In other word, if you know lots of English vocabularies, you can grasp English sentence easily. This is the power of "vocabularies."

3. Even though you know a lot of English vocabularies, if the interlocutor speaks fast enough for you not to understand his or her words, you are just helpless. Therefore the interlocutor's speed of speaking could be one of the obstacles to understand a person's saying.

4. If you are trained to speak and listen to American style English, you will have a hard time in listening to British style English. Therefore you need to be prepared for both of American and British style English pronunciation. In realilty, I,호섭, more often than not study American style English, so when I have a chance to confront British style English, I have a tendancy to avoid it because it is not familiar with me, therefore it is so hard to understand.

5 If you do not know well about English sentence structure, it is difficult to understand English. Let's say someone said a sentend a little fast, so you miss a word like this example.
ex) Could you tell him to answer to my question to see ( ) the perpetrator was here or not.
If you are well-structured in terms of English sentence structure, you will readiliy know the answer. That is to say, "structure" could be an important element of Listening English.

6. If you do not have your own strategy to listening English, It will take a long time for you to easily listening to English. Your own way of doing somethig always make you cut the corner.

l7. You always try to enhance your English listening skills in a quiet place. That is, you listen to very clear and not obscure English in terms of pronuciation. However, it is not the case when you virtually use English. There could be lots of background noise and other unexpected situations. Therefore, your listeningenvironment should be like real-life. ack of exposure to actually listening environment,

8. Englsih havs various accents. Therefore you have to have a chance to be exposed to various English accents.



Listening and Repeating.

no content involved, just listening and repeating.



here meaning involved because you have to answer to questions.

you don't have to creat your answer. a little of drills

Are you students?-yes i am.





maybe action can be involved to solve a task. students participation, meaning negotiation involved. they use their cognitive thinking skills, they are not bored..



communicate for real purpose. add comments, exchange,