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Develop the skills you need to decode rapid speech and listen with greater understanding and with less effort
Description
Learn how to become a better listener so you can understand more and listen for longer.
Topics covered:
Listening strategies: what can you do before you listen to help prepare you to understand what are going to hear?
Listening skills:
Topics covered:
Listening strategies: what can you do before you listen to help prepare you to understand what are going to hear?
Listening skills:
- Speech processing: you will be able to use an understanding of the phonology of English to help you decode a rapid stream of speech (sentence stress and rhyhm; how words blend together; understanding tone, pitch, and volume).
- Discourse competence: you will be able to identify and use signposters and discourse markers - words and phrases the speaker uses to help you, the listener, follow the structure of the ideas they are communicating to you
Cafetalk's cancellation policy
Before request is confirmed (fixed)
- Cancellation possible at any time without charge.
After request is confirmed (fixed)
- More than 24 hours before lesson start time.→ Cancellation is possible at any time.
- Less than 24 hours before lesson start time.→ The tutor may take a cancellation fee.
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No-Show→ The tutor may take a cancellation fee.
(Please check with the tutor for details.)
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