Tuning and Testing Listening-Reading (Learning Techniques, Methods & Strategies) Language Learning Forum

Tuning and Testing Listening-Reading
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DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6149 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian	Message 1 of 3 18 November 2009 at 5:27pm \| IP Logged
	I was wondering how the Listening-Reading System is tuned and tested by others. I've used L-R on a number of occasions, and found it to be extremely useful. However, I found I needed to extend it in a couple of ways to suit my personal learning goals. Here are my adaptions, which can vary depending on my proficiency in a given language. 1) Pure Listening - In order to test that I've fully understood a text, I introduced a pure listening component. This simply involves listening to the audiobook while walking, travelling or other daytime activity. I found it helps to identify unknown words, phrases or constructions, which I would revisit. 2) Pure Reading - This is basically reading the parallel text without listening to the audio. I normally do it after I've identified sections on the audio I wasn't confident about. My sessions could be disrupted to read up on a grammar point, but never a word. 3) Over L-R - Sometimes I found it useful to repeat a paragraph a number of times before moving onto the next one. I found this a lot with Russian. I'd like to hear if anyone else has expanded the technique for their study ? 1 person has voted this message useful
papillon Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5677 days ago 29 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English, Vietnamese	Message 3 of 3 18 November 2009 at 8:24pm \| IP Logged
	When I started out using L-R system, I would strictly follow it. After two weeks I had to tweak the system to my needs. I spend about 1 hour total each day doing L-R: attentively reading while listening to the target language L2. Any other steps advised by the L-R system are simply omitted. I have made over 15 parallel texts in French but rarely read the L1, except when I really need it. I just dive into reading and listening L2. Like Buttons has stated, L-R in short intervals seems more effective than several hours continuously. 1 person has voted this message useful

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