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English Listening Skills for Interviews

The document summarizes an interview about improving English listening skills. The interviewee has been learning English for 10 years and finds listening the most difficult skill. They report scoring over 60% on a June listening test. While practicing listening in free time, they note it's unclear how effective casual listening is without focused exercises. They listen to English songs, IELTS materials, movies and lectures. Lectures in English from Vietnamese teachers are sometimes difficult but not always. Live speaking is easier to understand than recordings due to ability to ask for clarification. Taking notes helped with exercises but sometimes ran short on time. Teachers provide listening exercises but no formal instruction. The interviewee believes improving listening relies primarily on self-practice but would

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English Listening Skills for Interviews

The document summarizes an interview about improving English listening skills. The interviewee has been learning English for 10 years and finds listening the most difficult skill. They report scoring over 60% on a June listening test. While practicing listening in free time, they note it's unclear how effective casual listening is without focused exercises. They listen to English songs, IELTS materials, movies and lectures. Lectures in English from Vietnamese teachers are sometimes difficult but not always. Live speaking is easier to understand than recordings due to ability to ask for clarification. Taking notes helped with exercises but sometimes ran short on time. Teachers provide listening exercises but no formal instruction. The interviewee believes improving listening relies primarily on self-practice but would

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Interview questions

1. How long have you been learning English?


I have been learning for 10 years

2. Which one is the most difficult skill for you to master?


I tend to think listening is the most difficult

3. How do you think you performed in the listening comprehension test in


June?
May be more than 60%

4. How often do you practice listening to English?


Now I try to listen all my free time even when not doing listening exercises
and sometime may be I don’t listen carefully and I just understand the over
all of the dialogues. I don’t know how it is effective?!

5. What do you usually listen to? (English songs? BBC? CNN? VOA?
Movies?
Native speakers? Lectures? etc.)
May be they’re English song and IELTS, sometimes in movie but I always
concentrate on the content of movie and forget that I’m listening to. I listen
to English in all of my lectures.

6. Do you have any difficulty listening to lectures in English?


Sometimes I find it difficult but not at all because my teachers are
Vietnamese speaking English

7. Which one is easier for you, listening to a person speaking English or


listening to a tape recorder? And why do you feel so?

In my case listening to a person speaking English is rather easier than to a


tape recorder because I can listen carefully and they could speak more
slower for me to understand or sometimes he/she could give explanation
when I don’t understand. However in a conference I just understand the
content but can not listening all the words they said. When listening to a tape
recorder I could concentrate on the tape but sometimes in doing listening
exercise one word I can listen and always the next word is not.
8. What do you think about taking notes while listening?
I had ever taken notes and then filled in exercise without concentrating too
much on the paper, I think it’s good because I could understand and do
exercise in my opinion but sometime time was not enough. Thus now I’m
not taking notes anymore.

9. Are you taught how to listen at school? If so, how?

No I don’t think so, teachers give us listening exercises and then I complete
it in 2 or 3times listening

10. Who prepared the listening activities in your class? Student(s) or


teacher?

Teachers ^_^ of course


11. In your opinion, who plays a more important role in improving your
listening

skill? You or your teacher? And why?

I tend to think try to improve by myself and not expect in others, but if
someone show me how to listening well I will try their way, may be it’s
suitable for me ^^
12. What do you expect your teacher(s) to help you improve your listening
skill?

Of course if it’s possible

13. What do you plan to do to improve your listening skill?

Now I just listening all the lessons and try to listen to the tape from my
memory card all my free time, I hope it’ll be better :-SS
14. Do you think that your school should arrange more classroom hours on
listening practice?
Yes of course, but my university has teaching in English courses, but not
specializing only in listening E.
Thank you,

Thank you so much for your time. I wish you the best in life.

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