IMPROVING STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION THROUGH FOCUSED LISTENING TASKS

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ABSTRACT
In recent years, English has become a compulsory subject in high schools in Vietnam, the need, therefore, to learn English is greater than ever before. However, almost all students do not have chances to develop listening skill at high school and list[r]

Listening has long been considered a hard-to-deal skill for both ESL teachers and learners. Although there are abundant studies on this field aiming to diversify in-class listening activities and make them more efficient for learners, the demand for one which manages to provide or reinforce necessar[r]

Teachers often see the course as moving through the textbook, com- pleting one activity, and then moving on to the next. However, doing the same or similar activities over again can be a good use of class time and can be good speaking tasks in themselves. This is known as[r]

(10) Florida’s surrounding lushness cannot impinge on its desert scrubbiness. This does not sound like an attractive place. It does not look much like one either;
Shrubby little oaks, clumps of scraggly bushes, prickly pear, thorns, and tangles. “It appear Said one early naturalist,” to de[r]

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Considered very important, pre-listening activities are carried out with a lot of purposes. According to students, the main aim of these activities is to make them more interested in listening lessons which seem to be more difficult. 91% of the