5 Ways to Take Good Notes!
When you listen to a presentation (like a TED Talk) or a lecture (like in a classroom), become an active listener. Take notes! WHY? Because taking notes helps you focus and reviewing notes helps you remember.
Language Learning Apps to Improve Listening
Language learning apps are the new “teachers”. You still will always need real live human teachers, but LL apps can really boost your language quickly.
5 Tips for Learning English Through Movies
Movies are a great resource for language learning. A good movie is a work of art – it is a
5 Ways to Get a Super Score on an Interview Test
Interactive listening (IL) is one component of listening ability. IL can only be measured in a communicative context with at least one other participant, so assessment of the listener's ability is partly dependent on the behavior and attitude of the other participants.
Speaking Circles International – Become a Facilitator
The Speaking Circle Facilitator Training program teaches you the skills to become a masterful facilitator. Training occurs in two phases.
Experiential Listening: Choosing the best input
After I present my ideas about experiential listening (see the post by this name), I am of course asked by
Experiential Listening
© 2022 Michael Rost I have talked often about the role of engagement in successful listening. And I've often been
My introduction to the “Affective Filter Hypothesis”
I became interested in the role of listening in language learning early in my career. As a novice teacher in
The Affective Filter Hypothesis
Concept: The Affective Filter Hypothesis is refers to the role of affect – the experience of internal feeling or emotion, ranging
Listen First Conversation Protocols
Graham Bodie The movement to mend the frayed fabric of America by bridging divides one conversation at a time Take
What Makes Listening Difficult?
Concept: Difficulty is essentially a subjective concept: what makes any input relatively easy or difficult is the listener’s familiarity with and
Listening Experiences
CONCEPT: Our listening ability – and motivation to listen better – grows through successful “listening experiences.” A “listening experience” is
