Listening Skills in Learning a Language: The Importance, Benefits and Means of Enhancement

Yurko, Nadiya; Styfanyshyn, Iryna

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“…Appropriate learning strategies should be among the first things any ESL/EFL lecturer or researcher considers when trying to improve student learning. Yurko and Styfanyshyn (2020) claimed that listening is essential for all forms of good communication. Listening requires extensive emotion, cognitive, and behavioural processes.…”

Section: Literature Review Language Learning Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rubin (1987) declared that two main types of strategies that promote directly towards learners' language learning development which are metacognitive and cognitive strategies. Alternatively, Yurko and Styfanyshyn (2020) claimed that listening from news or advertising outlet that revolves around general knowledge is another alternative that brings great beneficial towards listening attainment. Multimedia materials in teaching and learning process permits a boost in learners' active listening process engagement.…”

Section: Listening and Speaking Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, the researcher identified that participants were more engaged using media as a platform to enhance their listening skills. Apart from that, Yurko & Styfanyshyn (2020) claimed that it is essential to listen in on real conversations when learning a foreign language. They claimed that spending time in settings where people are speaking the language, such as cafés, parks, or in public transportation to listen to what others are saying without bothering anybody and to train in listening to common foreign conversations.…”

Section: Approaches To Enhance Listening and Speaking Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Listening and Speaking Strategies: Investigating the Preference of ESL Learners in a Malaysian Private School

Thandevaraj¹,

Gani²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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Listening and speaking are considered as major elements in language learning yet practising them is perhaps challenging for students these days. Students become demotivated when they feel it is difficult to comprehend or share information in the language they are learning. However, the use of suitable strategies could possibly get the students to master the language. Therefore, selecting the appropriate techniques may assist learners in improving their listening and speaking skills. Thus, this study mainly aims to investigate the listening and speaking strategies employed by intermediate as well as advanced ESL learners. An online survey was conducted among 60 ESL learners from a private school. The questionnaire was adopted and adapted from the Language Strategy Use Survey by Cohen, Oxford and Chi (2002). Findings of the study show that the highly used strategies by advanced and intermediate learners in the survey are compensation strategy. This strategy has helped them to develop their listening and speaking skills when learning the language. Students tend to use metacognitive, cognitive, memory, social, compensation, and affective strategies as an approach to strengthen their listening and speaking skills. The reason might be because the strategies that were proposed in the survey were easy to practise, and be implemented in the future. The end result of this study shows that utilizing suitable strategies helps students to develop their skills in language learning.

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Listening and Speaking Strategies: Investigating the Preference of ESL Learners in a Malaysian Private School

Thandevaraj¹,

Gani²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2021

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“…The act of listening involves complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes. (Yurko & Styfanyshyn, 2020) It consists of three dimensions: sensing, processing, and responding. Sensing refers to the receiving of messages; processing refers to events that take place in the mind of the listener such as organizing and assessing the significance of information; and responding involves recognizing receipt of messages.…”

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The Importance of Empathic Listening Skills in Turkish Learning of Foreign Students

Nacak

2021

Mediterranean Journal of Social & Behavioral Research

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Language is one of the most important tools in people's lives. It is the ability of individuals to communicate with people who know their own language in their social lives and it is shaped with people around them when they enter a society while another language is spoken. Language is also important to interact with them, to empathize and to understand / be understood and act together depending upon mutual understanding of each other and using a common language. Mother tongue is on the other hand defined as the first language acquired by individuals in their family and the society in which they grew up. The mother tongue can be acquired, and the foreign language can said to be learned. The mother tongue of Turkish societies is Turkish;also the first language to be accepted as an official language for Turkish Republic as well. Turkish, on the other hand, is a language with a deep-rooted culture dating back to ancient times. The functions of language or mother tongue are also to be able to realize effective communication in life. Effective communication can be achieved by understanding the feelings and thoughts of the other person, that is, by listening to them empathetically. When another language is to be learned, one of the most important criteria for the individual to acquire empathic listening skill is the cultural structure of that language. Learning only the grammar of a foreign language and four basic language skills alone is not enough for an empathic communication; The empathic dimension of listening, which is one of these four basic language skills, should also be culturally understood. Because the importance of empathic communication skill cannot be denied in using and understanding languages correctly. Teaching Turkish to foreigners has been increasing especially in recent years. Therefore, the relationship between mother tongue-foreign language-empathic communication skills, with students learning foreign languages are considerably important. In this regard, foreign individuals who learn Turkish presented in the article are at the same time get to know not only Turkish but also the Turkish culture. This study is a qualitative research and it tries to examine the benefit provided by foreigners who learn Turkish to use this language in the most effective way. Learning and using Turkish effectively is founded out to be related with getting to know the culture and gaining empathic listening skills.

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“…Cognitive strategies are related to the students' level of English; metacognitive strategies are strategies used to organize, plan, and evaluate the application of cognitive strategies; and the socio-affective strategy related to community activities related to other people. The cognitive strategies including bottom-up, and top-down methods and for the students at the expert level, top-down is more often used (Ai-hua Chen, 2013;Gilakjani & Sabouri, 2016;Yurko & Styfanyshyn, 2020). Related to metacognitive strategy, students who use this strategy can learn faster and integrate the knowledge they have; they are also very constant recipients and understand the situation, and they have the confidence to receive help from peers, teachers, and families, observe and assess themselves, and increase their motivation (Cao & Lin, 2020;Gilakjani & Sabouri, 2016;C.…”

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Mapping students' listening problems and strategies

Arroyyani¹

2021

LKS

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Listening is crucial to understand spoken language and to support the other language skills mastery; however, some students find several problems related to listening. This study aims to determine students’ listening problems and listening strategies they apply to overcome the difficulties. The research type is qualitative research using questionnaires and interviews as research instruments. This research used descriptive statistics to analyze the data obtained from the questionnaires and an interpretation of coding to analyze the interview transcript data. The respondents were 31 pharmacy students involved in the English for Pharmacy class, and there were three of them engaged in a structured interview session. The findings of this study were: (1) the students were moderate-level in listening problems of perception (M=2.91), parsing (M=3.18), and utilization (M=2.95) phase, (2) the students were high-level strategy users in cognitive, meta-cognitive, and socio-affective strategy, (3) the students mostly experienced difficulty in the parsing phase compared to two other problems and applied cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies than socio-affective strategy.

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Listening Skills in Learning a Language: The Importance, Benefits and Means of Enhancement

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Listening and Speaking Strategies: Investigating the Preference of ESL Learners in a Malaysian Private School

Listening and Speaking Strategies: Investigating the Preference of ESL Learners in a Malaysian Private School

The Importance of Empathic Listening Skills in Turkish Learning of Foreign Students

Mapping students' listening problems and strategies

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