English Listening Master

Author: Compiled by the Editorial Department of "English World"
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Large earplugs, comprehensively conquering all types of listening materials! A winning guide to completely master English listening. "Mastering Listening" and "Mastering Speaking" are the ultimate solutions for learning English listening and speaking, and they will join us in witnessing the end of the "deaf-mute English" era. "Mastering Listening" is a comprehensive listening guide that deeply analyzes the factors affecting listening, listening materials, and listening practice methods. It also proposes targeted listening solutions for English learners of different levels and learning needs. Whether you are a true listening blind or a practice listener who understands only vaguely, "Mastering Listening" can gradually improve your listening ability until you become a skilled listener who can listen without obstacles. Through the analysis of learner types and the integration of learning materials and listening practice methods, "Mastering Listening" is divided into eight listening training modules, gradually achieving the goals of primary, intermediate, and advanced listening skills. Like speaking practice, listening practice is a step-by-step process that requires continuous practice and the combination of listening and speaking to break through listening difficulties and realize the dream of becoming a listening master. Additionally, "Mastering Listening" believes that listening is one form of language input, the input of sound, and the process of input is the process of strengthening the correspondence between sound and information. Not understanding is simply a sign that the correspondence between sound and information is disconnected or not close enough. Therefore, during listening practice, do not try to understand a sentence by repeating it ten or a hundred times—such practice is not only unrealistic but also a waste of time. Most importantly, it is essential to recognize that "what you cannot see, you will never hear." For an English practice listener, the greatest pain is understanding something when reading but not being able to understand it when listening. The core of "Mastering Listening" practice is to understand what you can see, because the vocabulary and syntax that you cannot understand are not the problem of listening itself. Therefore, as an English practice listener, what you need to do is continuously strengthen the bidirectional correspondence between sound and textual information, rather than discovering this correspondence through one-way listening.