Introduction
How to improve listening
Today's Agenda
What skills are tested in
Listening.
Useful sources
Types
of questions in IELTS
listening. Useful techniques
Q & A
Using passive listening only would definitely be a huge mistake. We can say with 99%
certainty that you will need many hours of passive listening to
get the benefits of a single
hour of active learning; active learning is certainly more effective than passive learning.
But let’s say you’re listening to the language while doing something else, like cleaning
your house. You would have to spend that time
cleaning your house anyway, you are
therefore not actually wasting time, but maximizing it. You are not actively learning, but
your brain is getting used to the sound patterns of the language nonetheless. We believe
that in order to be successful
in language learning, you should include the language in
your life in any way you can. Including passive listening in your daily life is just one way to
do so. Passive listening will most likely benefit you in the long run,
without putting much
effort into it. The passive material goes somewhere in the back of your brain, in your
unconscious mind. This may eventually help with active learning. When you are having a
conversation, the information could be easier to access if you
have done a lot of passive
listening. It should, at the very least, increase your passion for the language by making it