2014年1月7日 星期二

1.  Write a list of listening skills that you learned about from each of the units that we studied.  Find them on - page 9, page 35, page 58, page 82, page 107.
        Identifying main ideas,making inference,listening for example,recognizing appositives that explain,organizing notes with a T-chart.
2.  Which listening skill (mentioned above) did you find the most valuable?  Why?

        Identifying main ideas.With the ability to identify the main idea helps me to understand the speaking.I think listening to the question by the reporter is a good way.

3.  What are some ways in which your listening in English has improved this semester?

       I can tell the organizational cues and help me to identify the main idea.Also, by practice over and over, could hear more words and sentences than before.

4.  What are some challenges that you still face in your English listening?  How do you plan to overcome these challenges?
     Whenever there are words and phrases I can't recognize I would get tripped and miss the following contents.Also,my spelling is poor.That makes me fail to take notes quickly.  I plan to read more articles and write some short paragraph to gain some vocabulary.And, watching more English videos to sharpen my listening skills.

5.  Based on your experience with listening to many different types of activities in English this semester (listening to radio reports, radio interviews, TED talks, the audio book, a song, etc.), what is the most efficient way that you can train yourself to improve your English listening on your own?  Explain your answer.

       Listening to TED talks is the most efficient ways to train my listening ability.The content of TED talk is very meaningful so that I could focus on the video.Besides,there are subtitles for me to check weather I misunderstanding the talk or not.What is more,the speakers speak clearly and there is all kinds of accents I could learn.