Techniques for improving Listening
Listening is one of the most powerful tools of communication and is a process that is used to receive, convey a meaning, and respond to both verbal and nonverbal messages. This process is the first stage of the process of learning languages, both English and other languages. Maybe we all feel a little difficult in learning English, especially in listening skills. Unlike other skills, this one skill is more influenced by various factors so that we are required to be more concentrated in listening to our interlocutors.
Most people who start learning English start by reading. But the sequence turned out to be wrong. If likened to a baby's growth cycle, the first thing a baby can do is listen (LISTENING), followed by imitating what he has heard through words (SPEAKING), continuing by reading what has been said (READING), and the last is by write (WRITING). If the sequence and learning process are wrong, then the process of learning English becomes jumping and inefficient. The result if you start by learning to read first, the biggest possibility is that they are wrong in pronunciation. This is because mother tongue is still being carried in their daily language. Even though we all know that English with Indonesian has a quite different difference when viewed from the arrangement of words in the sentence.
The first thing to do in learning English Listening is to try to familiarize yourself with all kinds of things that smell of English. We can start by trying to listen to English stories or films. Make sure if you watch a movie, try a non-subtitle, or look for one that has English subtitles too. Listen repeatedly are more familiar with the English pronunciation.
The learning process of Listening cannot be done instantly. It takes a relatively longer time to get used to the foreign sounds of English. In addition, the process of learning English also requires the subconscious ability of the brain to better remember what has been absorbed from the process of listening to the conversation in English earlier.
If we are all getting used to the process of listening to conversations in English, then now is the time to practice it. Along with the increasingly familiar listening to English conversations, the brain is unconsciously also recording how the correct pronunciation in English. You no longer need to learn Pronunciation in English to find out how to pronounce it, it's just that you need to train and keep getting used to your tongue to speak English. There is nothing instant in this world. Even Instant Noodles also require a separate process so they can be consumed. Therefore, keep on consistently practicing and getting used to speaking English, because language is a habit.
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| 2019-05-05 | Mardanidina | 79 | view |
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 646, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[2]
Message: “Even though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... being carried in their daily language. Even though we all know that English with Indonesia...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, still, then, therefore, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 13.1623246493 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 41.998997996 169% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2270.0 1615.20841683 141% => OK
No of words: 455.0 315.596192385 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98901098901 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87529315223 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 176.041082164 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468131868132 0.561755894193 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 678.6 506.74238477 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8367314438 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5833333333 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9583333333 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 7.06120827912 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 3.4128256513 410% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103043447348 0.244688304435 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0377403461013 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0399590514675 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730080436834 0.151304729494 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0378137922959 0.056905535591 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.58950901804 89% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.33 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.