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Why Using Extensive Listening in Teaching English as a Foreign Language?

            In teaching English as a foreign language, we know that there are four important skills, they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Most of people say that listening skill is the difficult one to teach or learn, however we know that listening is the most important skill in English. In teaching listening, there are two famous techniques or strategies used, those are known as intensive and extensive listening. Intensive listening is the often one used by teachers to teach EFL students. It is really helpful for them it needs full of concentration on it. Also, intensive listening is done seriously, it means that EFL students can understand what they hear clearly because of repetition. While some teachers continue to use it as a main technique in teaching listening as a foreign language,others use extensive listening as a better way to teach EFL students. That is, extensive listening is the one of strategy who provide three main benefits to EFL students. They are experience, easily to understand the material clearly, and speed recognition is built. Those three advantages are as the reason why extensive listening becoming the most important thing and useful for teaching listening as a foreign language......klik this link below to see full content

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