{"id":51918,"date":"2017-06-08T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/english-learning-first-listening-shock-survive\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:50:51","slug":"english-learning-first-listening-shock-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/english-learning-first-listening-shock-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"AEE 753: First Listening Shock: What It Is and How to Survive It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"first<\/p>\n

What happens to your brain when you get thrown into a difficult listening situation?<\/p>\n

You get First Listening Shock!<\/p>\n

It overwhelms you and paralyzes you.<\/p>\n

What is happening in your brain and how can you turn it around for connection<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Find out today.<\/p>\n

When you freeze up in a nerve-wracking listening situation, the Affective Filter<\/a> goes up.<\/p>\n

This prevents information from getting in and it makes you unable to absorb and understand<\/a> what the native speaker is saying.<\/p>\n

Here is the question from a listener:<\/p>\n

“I do listen to some English audiobooks. I have difficulty on the first listening like I get the First Listening Shock. When I go back to listen again I found they are just normal words.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is keeping this student from understanding words that he should understand?<\/p>\n

His brain is crowded and overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

There is probably a lot of inner dialogue that gets in the way.<\/p>\n

You hear a voice that says:<\/p>\n

“Oh I am listening to English now. It should be hard because it was hard last time.” <\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This voice takes up all of the space that you need to absorb what you hear.<\/p>\n

What’s the solution?<\/p>\n

You need a step by step way to practice being comfortable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You need a way to build up to these difficult listening situations.<\/p>\n

This is what we do in our course.<\/a><\/p>\n

This student isn’t doing it right because he’s just diving into these new topics and new audiobooks without preparing for them.<\/p>\n

There is no step-by-step strategy where you might prepare to understand by thinking about the topic first and previewing vocabulary.<\/p>\n

What’s the bottom line?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“You can either practice understanding or practice not understanding” -Jessica<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You have to go about this in a smart way like an adult.<\/p>\n

The more negative experiences listening to native English that you have, the stronger your affective filter will be the next time you try listening.<\/p>\n

This means that you need a step-by-step system that systematically and gradually brings you to the final goal of understanding and connecting.<\/p>\n

What questions do you have from today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us know in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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