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THE USE OF STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS
Egamberganova Gulhayo Adamboy kizi
gulhayoegamberganova89@gmail.com
Faculty of English philology and translation studies,
Samarkand State Institute of Foreign languages, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Annotation:
This article gives data about how to improve listening skills quickly and
effectively through using strategies and techniques. Added to this, it indicates some stages of
listening process.
Keywords:
Cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy, affective strategy, social strategy,
interpersonal communication.
I. INTRODUCTION
Listening is one of the most important language-learning exercises.The capacity to
effectively receive information when talking with people is mostly dependent on your ability
to listen. It forms the cornerstone of the process by which a youngster picks up language from
his mother. So in every aspect of life, including dealing with coworkers, family relationships,
and helping a loved one through illness, listening is a crucial skill, that is to say one of the
ways that people communicate on a regular basis is by listening. However, most people have
poor listening skills. But nowadays there are so many ways to develop listening skills. As the
technology so fast, most of people have mobile phone and so they can listen podcasts or
musics in everywhere and anytime. Apart from this pupils may improve their listening skill
through way of dictation. Because like other language abilities listening requires a lot of
practice. According to Sevik “Listening is the initial stage in first and second language
acquisition”[1].
II. METHODS
There are some listening strategies and they can be classified into four main types: cognitive,
metacognitive, affective, and social strategies.
- Cognitive listening strategies refer to all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge
like using language and sociocultural expertise to tackle the issues. Inference, prediction,
interpretation, storing, and recall of data, summarizing, translating, repeating, embellishing,
sourcing, grouping, taking notes, substituting, and creating pictures are a few instances of
cognitive performance. Cognitive strategies are important for listening comprehension
because they help learners monitor and control their mental processing, identify
comprehension breakdowns, and connect world knowledge to listening content.
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- Metacognitive strategies, which are considered the most reliable predictors of listening
skills development in metacognition, denote the ability to reflect on and control one’s own
learning. Recent research into metacognition has provided evi- dence that effective listening
performance can happen through classroom instruc- tion to assist learners’ mental process in
coping with listening materials [2]. Researchers also discover that successful learning comes
from the ability to combine different strategies to meet various tasks and situations [3] and
that more skilled learners tend to apply these types of skills intensively, especially monitoring
comprehension through evaluating information and questioning for clarification [4].
Since social and affective techniques are closely related, they are frequently discussed
simultaneously. This is due to the fact that social relationships and personal emotions are
interconnected aspects of the L2 learning process. Compared to research on cognitive and
metacognitive techniques, there are fewer empirical investigations on these kinds. According
to research on socioaffective ability, students are frequently discouraged from asking
questions during the listening process when there is a lack of social empathy in the classroom.
[5]. Examples of social strategies are requesting clarifications and interrupting someone to
check comprehension. Affective methods include things like controlling worry, being
composed, and adjusting to not knowing everything. These strategies help learners stay and
well-focused and connected with others in the learning process. The use of social strategies,
however, is not always easy to oberve and documented. It is because researchers can only
witness the behaviour of extroverted learners while the benefit of such strategies quiet
learners is often hard to report [6].
III.RESULTS
Actually, most of people, mainly students and pupils suffers from improving their listening
skills So as solution of this problem, they can use from various effective methods and
strategies.Firstly, people need to have good general listening skills to improve their listening
skills. As mentioned in the method above, Strategies are based on the development of a
certain ability of students, for example "Cognitive strategy" helps to realize, that is to say,
many processes related to the mental activity of students: understanding, guessing, translating
and other abilities.In addition, "Metacognitive strategy" contributes to students' ability to
reflect their knowledge.Because these strategies are considered successful in practice, this is
the method It tested students' ability to combine multiple strategies in solving different tasks
and situations.The results of other strategies show that during the lesson students were able to
form the ability to concentrate and communicate with others.
IV.DISCUSSION
TeachingListening
According Jack C Richard listening is assuming greater importance in foreign language
classrooms. There are several reasons for this growth in popularity. Actually there are many
process of listening occur in five stage.
Hearing
Hearing is a physical reaction brought on by sound waves stimulating the ear's
sensory receptors; you must hear to hear, but you do not have to listen to hear (attention is
required for the perception required for listening). Attention is a crucial component of good
listening since the brain filters out most stimuli and only allows a small number to focus.
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Understanding
In order to comprehend the meanings of the symbols we have seen and
heard, we must first analyze the meaning of the stimuli we have perceived. Sounds like
applause and visuals like blue uniforms are examples of symbolic inputs in addition to words.
The meanings we ascribe to these symbols depend on our prior associations as well as the
context in which they occur. The listener must comprehend the sender's intended meaning
and the context they are assuming in order for interpersonal communication to be successful.
Remembering
Remembering is important listening process because its mean that individual has not only
received and interpreted a message but has also added it to the minds storage bank. Just as
our attention is selective when we listen, our memories may differ significantly from what
was initially seen or heard.
Evaluating
At this point in the listening process, only active listeners take part. The
effective listener ensures that they don't start this activity too soon. At this stage, the active
listener evaluates the evidence, separates fact from opinion, and assesses whether bias or
prejudice is present in a message .The listening process stops when we start this step of the
process before a message is finished because we have to stop hearing and paying attention to
the incoming message.
Responding
Since the speaker has no other way to know whether a message has been
received, this stage is the only overt way for the sender to assess the degree of success in
sending the message. The receiver must complete the process by providing verbal and/or
nonverbal feedback[7].
V.CONCLUSION
Listening development is not a short-term process It takes a lot of time and effort to improve
it Because there are passive and active listening, if passive listening is used, it will obviously
take a lot of time.If it is the opposite, that is, if active listening is used, it is effective and
takes less time. Intelligibility can frequently be improved through listening skills training.But
there are some trainings that can be said to work mainly for students when the task text is not
difficult and they have prior knowledge of the listening content.
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