English Teaching

ELT365 · D160 — Common listening problems learners face

Idea — The five main listening difficulties: speech rate, connected speech, unfamiliar accents, no visual support, and anxiety. Each has a distinct solution.

Example — A learner who mishears ‘d’you wanna’ has a connected-speech problem, not a vocabulary gap. The fix is phonological training, not vocabulary lists.

Try — Ask one learner where listening feels hardest. Map their answer to one of the five causes. The right diagnosis produces the right fix.


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