Notes on the Listening Examples for Chapters 1-2 1. Backbeat Examples (discussed on the bottom of page 8) If you count out loud “1-2-3-4” over and over and clap when you say “2” and “4” you are clapping the backbeat. The backbeat is the single most important characteristic of ALL popular music. 2. Riff Examples (page 10) Almost all rock‚ pop‚ R&B‚ Hip-Hop‚ etc. is based on riffs. 3. Example of Call and Response between lead singer and chorus (background singers) (page 19) “Unchain My Heart”
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Introduction After going through Teaching Listening Comprehension book by Penny Ur‚ I feel that it is a very suitable book to be owned by teachers of English. The book was published by the Cambridge University Press Cambridge at London‚ New York‚ New Rochelle‚ Melbourne and Sydney. There are many interesting exercises or task that they can use when they are teaching listening comprehension. This book can help teachers to device kind of exercises on listening for their students. In part one of this
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Methodology of Investigation | Pre- Project | | “Adequate conditions to a better development of the listening skill in the classroom” | | | ELT. Lizet M Romero Barrera | | Pre Project Teaching English involve the development of four basic skills: listening‚ speaking‚ reading and writing. The accomplishment of these skills will provide the learners with the tools to acquire a new language. But if one of them is not well develop‚ learners will face a difficulty on the understanding
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Affecting EFL Learners ’ English Listening Comprehension and the Strategies for Improvement Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Malaysia Email: abbas.pouhossein@yahoo.com Mohammad Reza Ahmadi School of Educational Studies‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Malaysia Email: mr.ahmadi2720@yahoo.com Abstract—Listening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational process. In spite of its importance‚ listening has long been the neglected
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Effective Listening Strategies Liliana Lavaki-Ahosivi BSHS/385 July 27‚ 2015 Barbara Hughson Effective Listening Strategies Listening is the way we hear someone or something. Effective listening requires us to hear more of what someone is saying instead of just hearing what they are saying. When we are listening effectively‚ it means we are not letting anything distract us from paying attention to what the person is saying and understanding them verbally and nonverbally. Speaking in a way that one
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LEARNING LISTENING SKILL OF NON-ENGLISH MAJOR LEARNER AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE DIFFICULTIES”. 1.1. Listening Skill: Many language learners consider listening ability the measure of knowing a language. As for them‚ fluency is the ability to converse with others much more than the ability to read‚ write or comprehend oral language. They regard listening as the most important skill they can acquire. Therefore‚ if learners do not learn how to listen or do not get any opportunities to listening in the
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different ways to listen a person speech‚ but are all the ways correct or are wrong? perhaps this topic doesn’t have a correct or a wrong way to be developed‚ because every person have their own listening strategies to understand what others want to tell them. The challenges that every person have when listening are: 1. New vocabulary: because if you don’t know a word that someone tell you‚ and you cant relate it with another one‚ you get stuck‚ and you lose the rest of the idea because you stop thinking
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVE LISTENING AND THE COMMUNICATION OF EMPATHY IN THE COUNSELLING RELATIONSHIP – (Assignment 2) There are many and varied skills used in a counselling environment and whilst all have equal relevance‚ I would like to focus on two skills which I feel are particularly important in the development of the counselling relationship. Active listening and the communication of empathy towards a client are individual skills which along with others help to form a basis for development
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When it comes to communicating and listening to others‚ everyone has their apprehensions. Whether it is how they will come across in conversation‚ or a worry they will say the wrong thing‚ it is enough to make any average person nervous. Now imagine having these same anxieties‚ but also having to face them in a completely different language than your own. In Harumi Kimura’s journal article‚ “Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: a Self-Presentational”‚ she explores the anxieties and the psychological
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Compare and Contrast Essay: Reading vs. Listening to Music Reading and listening to music are both entertaining and good hobbies to fill up your free time‚ but there are also problems presented when choosing a book to read or a song to listen to. “Reading is more educational compared to listening to music” says Science Daily. “Reading can increase your vocabulary and comprehension ability while music doesn’t” says CNN. Reading can be more of a conversation factor than music. People can
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