HOW TO IMPROVING LISTENING ABILITY.
THE USE OF AUTHENTIC SOUND MATERIALS FOR BEGINNERS

ANUSKA NAKICLT
Anuska NakicIt is generally felt that authentic text materials, and particularly authentic sound materials, are not suited for beginning levels of foreign language study. The reason given is the difficulty of such material. It differs from carefully and slowly pronounced text in tempo, phonetic variability, register etc, and however carefully one searches it is hard to find authentic samples which fit into grammatical and lexical grading of beginning levels. Hence listening practice is usually done on specially composed text material, mainly in order to develop hearing skills, ie identification and aural memory of phonetic groups and sounds, as well as linguistic competence as a whole, with the hope of one day achieving the skill of understanding the content of spoken text at an advanced stage of learning or outside of class. Thus transfer of knowledge from pedagogical to authentic material is excluded from the educational process at the beginning stage of auditory work.
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