Implementing The Students’ Listening Comprehension Skills Chunpin Luo The School of Foreign Languages‚ Yunnan Nationalities University No.134‚ Yieryi Dajie‚ Kunming 650031‚ China Tel: 86-871-643-5063 Abstract This is a proposal for an action research plan designed to find out how to improve students’ listening comprehension skills‚ enhance their performance and help to promote better learning. This plan is focused on the minority students who major in English in our University. Listening comprehension is one
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I have spent the majority of my professional life in the arena of technology. My journey first started with a degree in television production. After working for a local television station for almost 5 years‚ I decided to pursue an educational career. Once I received my educational degree‚ I attended to gravitate towards the technology end of teaching. I spent many years teaching in the Texas prison system using the computer lab to teach Texas offenders to receive their GED. Once I started in the
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Have you ever wondered are the members of a church are really listening to the message? If there was any other place where someone would be more focused I would think that it would be either at a church or at the doctor’s office. I have decided to take a look into the crowd of a church to see how the audience receives what could be a moving message. Something that should be life changing and you’ll find that for the most part‚ it is. As the doors open to the sanctuary there is a since of serenity
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Listening and Perception 2 We humans are different and unique. We can see these differences in everything we do and create. Interestedly we have a variety of views and concepts in very little or insignificant aspects of our daily living. Members of the same family can have a personal interpretation of what they considered best for society. For this reason we had to find ways to resolve conflict and manage situations‚ in order to live a more productive life with the less conflict possible. For
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Some barriers that prevent us from listening effectively are trying to listen to more than one conversation at a time. You are not interested. Not focusing on the conversation. Sympathizing rather than empathizing. To over come these barriers would be instead of trying to listen to more than one conversation at a time try to focus on one conversation first then focus on the second conversation after the first one is finished. And try to have conversations in a least distracting environment. With
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Effective Listening Business Communication COM/285 Effective Listening Communication encompasses four basic types: reading‚ writing‚ speaking‚ and listening (Covey‚ 2004). The ability to master them well is crucial to be effective (2004). Whereas the first three are taught at school as separate courses‚ little to none is known for trainings regarding listening. Communication is a two-way process and listening is an important part of communication. Without a listener - the receiver-
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allowed to carry guns during school hours. There are many schools the now allow and supply teachers with guns to carry during school hours. The most well-known school protective handgun is the 9-mm‚ it weighs around 1 pound and can easily slip into your pocket. In the U.S. it should be a law or need for teachers and staffs of schools to carry a weapon (most likely a gun) for protective reasons. If this happened massacre rates in schools would drop to around 0. One interesting story is the story of
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Listening Susan Cain said in her book ’The Power of Introverts’‚ "We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally." Listening is more important of a skill than speaking in an effective communication. Active listening provides people with opportunity to understand the speaker to be able to respond and form opinions about what’s being conveyed. I was part of the ESL program for the first two years of High School. After I got out of the ESL program‚ I started tutoring and encouraging
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Listening Skills Careful listening can increase your telephone efficiency. The average speaking rate is 150 to 160 words a minute‚ but we can think at 600 words a minute which means that only twenty five percent of our mental capacity is required to record what is being said. By using the rest to think about and react to the words instead of thinking about other distractions‚ we would improve our listening by gathering more information from what is being said. To let the other person know
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Today was the very first day of filming the role play sessions for counselling class. I was not that nervous because we had the script for this session to begin. It felt like I was prepared‚ like I knew what had to be done or needed to be said during these sessions. However‚ it was not that easy when we began filming soon‚ the script portion was over and I felt lost in words. I was hesitant to ask‚ to respond in the beginning because I did not wanted to hurt my client even unintentionally. Soon‚
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