English Comprehension Skills, Study notes of English Language

Download English Comprehension Skills and more Study notes English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Listening and Speaking Comprehension Listening is an activity that involves identifying sounds and processing them into sentences or words. We use our ears to receive sounds and we use our brains to translate or convert what we heard into words or sentences. To be a good listener, we have to be focused and pay attention to the sounds that we have heard. Listening requires us to focus and pay attention because it is the basic skill to people need to know and have to concentrate. There are so many ways we could try to improve our focus and help us to be a good listeners. Here are some things that can help anyone to be more focused and pay attention to what they heard: a. Lyrics training b. TED Talks c. Voice Tube d. Podcasts e. MOOCs Listening is the ability to understand, interpret and respond to messages from the speaker. Listening is one of the indicators of language proficiency tests such as English proficiency tests like TOEFL, IELTS, and many more. For example, in TOEFL, listening comprehension is one of the sections that will be scored. TOEFL Listening: a. Length ● 41 to 57 minutes (why so varied?) ● 3–4 lectures, some with classroom discussion, each 3–5 ● minutes; 6 questions per lecture ● 2–3 conversations, every 3 minutes; 5 questions per ● conversation b. Type ● Conversations between students ● Lectures ● Conversations between a professor and students Listening is one of the communication skills such as reading and writing comprehension. Listening comprehension is important because it needs the listener to understand the context of something that they heard and can relate to what they hear so they can understand the message from listening. Listening comprehension skills involve three main things such as: a. Recognition : connecting, and recognizing the component of a message b. Selection : select the most important words in the message (keyword) c. Interpretation : understanding the information of the message that was heard. There are some tips to do some listening comprehension tasks, such: 1. Note-taking 2. Don’t get distracted by numbers 3. If you miss something, it’s gone 4. Use context clues for unfamiliar words 5. TOEFL Listening lectures are similar to reading passages 6. Practice with high-quality materials Listening Comprehension can generate skills for retention, relationship, and understanding of a message. To be able to get the most important things out and to be able to interpret them in the best possible way to develop knowledge. It is also important to emphasize that the relevance of listening comprehension is not only to be able to channel and understand a message in the best way but also to know how listening can improve social skills. Be clear about why it is important to listen and what the objective and achievement of the listening action are for personal or professional reasons. Taking advantage of the understanding of listening will make decisions and reflections clearer and more concrete in daily life. Besides listening comprehension, there are other communication skills which are speaking comprehension. Speaking comprehension is the ability to speak and listen with understanding. Speaking skills require people to take turns, speak confidently, stay on topic, and speak with clarity. TOEFL, Speaking comprehension will be affected by scoring because there’s a speaking section that needs 17 minutes long to answer 4 questions. Participants won’t speak directly to another person, but they need to speak to the computer which records the participant. TOEFL Speaking section score is based on the ability to read, listen, take notes, pronounce words correctly, use good grammar, and manage time wisely. There are some tips to boost your TOEFL Score in the speaking section, such as: 1. Take awesome notes 2. Relax 3. Stay focused 4. Use a template 5. Don’t plagiarize 6. Block out distraction Writing Comprehension 1. Comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read. Skill to understand what we read and write something we have read to explain our understanding. 2. Writing process : a. Pre-writing - Generating the purpose - Outlining ideas b. Drafting - Writing a draft - Supporting main ideas with details c. Revising - Improving the flow of ideas - Improving the language d. Editing and proofreading - Checking spelling, grammar, and punctuation - Checking the format e. Publishing - Revising from reviewers WRITING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE Dear Mrs. Lany, I am Lily, a tenant of yours, living at your accommodation at 127 NCT Apartment, London. I have been staying in your accommodation for the last two weeks. Unfortunately, I am having a problem here with some furniture in your accommodation. The first problem is that the living room's ceiling lamps kept switching on and off by themselves. At first, it scared me because I thought some creepy things had done it. It makes me uncomfortable every time I spend some time in the living room. The second problem is there is something wrong with the kitchen sink. The faucet of the kitchen sink is leaking for the last 4 days and I can’t make it stop. It really made me uncomfortable and I can’t wash dishes with the leaking sink. These problems really make me difficult because I can’t cook and wash dishes with the broken sink, and I can’t spend my time in the living room because of the lamp. I hope you can help me by sending me someone to look at the apartment so that the broken furniture can be repaired or replaced. I really look forward to hearing from you very soon because I have paid full payment for the accommodation rent until next year. Please contact me by phone at this number or by email. Thank you, Sincerely, Lily