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8 strategies to support students with building listening skills.

Improving listening skills is a multi-faceted process which involves more than just identifying words used in a conversation.

Listening is so ephemeral. You hear the communicated piece of information but as soon as it stops, it’s gone, there’s nothing to hang onto, you loose total control compared to Speaking, Writing or Reading. With reading, it’s there, you can read it as many times as you need, you can look for clues and context, you can work out from what’s around the word or sentence, but listening, there’s nothing left once it is spoken. It’s gone. And that lack of control leads to frustration and feeling of being incompetent and that leads to embarrassment and avoidance.

Students need to be taught to listen and process the information they hear.

This resource can help you teach students to listen. It can be used as a whole class activity as a partner while doing listening tasks. It can be printed off in A5 and stuck at the back of the books to be used as a checklist for students. It can be used as a checklist for homework tasks or to build confidence in tackling listening tasks.
It can be refered to during lessons every time you practise listening