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The material highlights why students struggle when they mentally freeze, rely on translation, attempt listening material beyond their level, or multitask while listening. Practical classroom advice addresses how to encourage asking for repetition, develop thinking in English, choose appropriate media, and balance comprehension with selective vocabulary lookup. It also covers feedback, error correction, and supporting quiet learners with effective guidance and feedback.","CONTENTS  \n3 LISTENING: Do You Recognize  \nThese 5 ESL  \nListening Mistakes?  \n4 PRONUNCIATION:  \n7 Worst Pronunciation Mistakes ESL Students Make Around the World  \n5 PRONUNCIATION:  \nPronunciation 101:  \n7 Things  \nYour Students Need to Hear You Explain  \n6 PRONUNCIATION:  \n7 Little-Known Factors that Could Affect Your ESL Students’Pronunciation  \n7 STRESS AND INTONATION: Do Your ESL Students Make These Stress and Intonation Mistakes?  \n8 INTONATION: 7 Ways to Correct Your ESL Students’ Intonation Once and for All  \n9 TRANSLATION: How to Get Your Students to Stop Translating and Start Thinking in English  \n10 REVIEW: Reviewing ESL: 8 Mistakes Your Students Must Overcome Before the Test  \n11-12 WRITING AND SPEECH: Correcting Student Error in Writing and Speech:  \nWhen, How, and How Much  \nError Correction in ESL Writing and Speech (Part 2)  \n15 ACCURACY: Hitting the Bulls Eye:  \n4 Simple Steps to Fostering Accuracy in Your Students Letters  \n16 TEACHING ABROAD:  \nTeaching in Japan:  \n5 Common Student Mistakes  \n17 MUST READ: 5 NonVerbal Ways to Do Error Correction  \n18 MUST READ:  \nThe Upside of Errors: When and Why to Avoid Correcting Your Students  \n19 MUST READ: How to Correct Mistakes  \n20 MUST READ:  \nHow To Provide Quality Feedback In The ESL Classroom  \n21 MUST READ:  \n7 Things Your Quiet ESL Students Are Not Telling You  \n22 MUST READ: 10 Best Pieces of Advice You Could Ever Give Your ESL Students  \n23 BONUS: Whoops, I Did It Again: Talking About Mistakes  \n13-14 WRITING AND SPEECH: Correct Me if I’m Wrong (Please):  \nDo You Recognize  \nThese 5 ESL Listening Mistakes?  \nMOST ESL STUDENTS IDENTIFY THE GOAL OF ESL CLASSES AS HELPING THEM TO SPEAK ENGLISH BETTER.  \nBut to speak better, they have to listen better. Speaking and listening comprehension are like the two sides of the same communication coin. Students who lack the proper listening skills will have amuch harder time communicating in English.  \nNO RULES  \nOne of the hardest things about improving listening comprehension is that you can’t give your students a set of rules like the ones you give them for correct grammar and proper speaking. Students simply practice listening – either they get it or they don’t.  \nNow, there is of course a set of things you can do, certain ways to approach listening exercises to maximize the listening comprehension potential. Here, I’ll focus on the mistakes ESL students make when approaching listening practice. Teach them to work on eliminating these, and they’ll be better prepared to meet a listening challenge.  \n5 LISTENING MISTAKES ESL STUDENTS MAKE  \n1 GIVING INTO MENTAL BLOCK  \nWhen you’re not a native speaker, listening takes massive amounts of effort and concentration. Just to picture what your students have to face, try listening to an interview in a foreign language you barely speak: it’s hard, isn’t it? What happens after a few minutes? You simply decide you don’t understand, give up and shut the audio off. What do our students do when they don’t understand a conversation in a real life situation? Of course, they can’t shut it off, but they might just decide it’s too hard, and simply tune out. Give up.  \nWhat to do: Tell students that in a real life situation, there’s nothing wrong with asking the native English speaker to slowdown, repeat or rephrase. Native speakers are often polite, understanding and absolutely willing to help out. Students must be taught right from the start to lose the fear of asking for repetition or clarification.  \n2 TRANSLATING  \nIN THEIR HEADS  \nSome students have the nasty habit of translating what you say, in their heads, as you speak. This is terribly tiring, it does not help students develop fluency, and infact, it hinders it as they must constantly pause to translate before they can reply.  \nWhat to do: Teach students early on (even if they’re beginners!) about the importance of thinking in English. 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