Andijan state institute of foreign languages

Suggestions to improve listening input:

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  Global listening should be short (one to three minutes of duration).
  
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  *Teachers’ monologues are most effective at this level if they are delivered in a simplified code.
  
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  Try to add new material gradually.
  
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  Global listening exercises delivered to large classes, offers an option to use the class time wisely.
  
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  Selective listening exercises focused on structures or sounds are easy to prepare.
  
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  Listening discrimination tasks can focus on tenses, word order, or new vocabulary.
  

Techniques for Global Listening:

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  Presentation of new material. Since global listening is the presentation of new material. Until students are skilled readers, it is the best to present new material orally.
  
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  Texts should be short, and preceded by a pre-listening activity.
  
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  New vocabulary can be used in short, illustrative sentences before learners hear it as part of the lesson.
  
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  The new text should be modeled at normal speed, but with pauses between natural phrase groups.
  
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  Comprehension at the beginning stage is not depend on understanding every word.
  

How to improve your global listening:
Remember, it isn’t necessary to understand everything! Many words are not essential - you can get the “message” without getting all the words. Often what is important is emphasized or stressed, so try concentrating on that. You could try to predict or guess what the words you are unsure of mean.

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  Prepare yourself before you start listening for something. Think about what you expect to hear. Use the context or the situation, the intonation of the speaker and, if you’re watching a video, the expressions and body language of the people involved.
  
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  There are also clues in the language which help you predict what’s coming:-
  signals such as “There’s one point I’d like to make...........”, “I’m afraid that............” (signals something negative will follow)
  connectors such as “Although...........”, “On the one hand............”,
  sequencers such as “Firstly..............”, “Next...............”