Sentence examples for proficient listeners from inspiring English sources

Less proficient listeners, who often lack flexibility in using listening strategies, either focus too much on the text of the listening or on their background knowledge during listening.

Since meta-cognitive strategies are closely related to directing the listening process, it may be harder for less proficient listeners to use meta-cognitive strategies due to cognitive constraints of processing at the perception level (Goh 2008; Yeldham 2016).

These findings suggest that proficient listeners not only possess a wider repertoire of L2 listening strategies to draw from, they also employ these varied meta-cognitive and cognitive strategies more effectively while listening, which suggests that L2 listening strategy use is a major determinant of L2 listening proficiency (Graham and Macaro 2008).

Others have also concluded that more proficient listeners appear to be more flexible in changing strategies as they progress through the listening phases (Vandergrift and Tafaghodtari 2010).

Proficient L2 listeners do indeed show greater use of meta-cognitive strategies such as planning, monitoring, evaluating, and problem-solving than less proficient listeners (Vandergrift 2003, 2005).

In regard to research investigating L2 listener strategy use, various studies compared the strategy use of proficient and less-proficient listeners (O'Malley, Chamot, and Küpper, 1989; Vandergrift, 1997, 2003).

He became so proficient that in 2011 he stunned listeners at a Hong Kong University event by breaking protocol and speaking for two minutes in fluent English.

The most proficient bird watchers are actually better bird listeners.

But various compression techniques have made it possible to pack sound into smaller files; more powerful connections have made it easier for bite-size chunks of audio to travel from source to listener; and players have become more proficient at translating those chunks into a continuous flow of sound.

As management becomes more proficient at the jobs guild members once held, KNX listeners and KCBS viewers will notice less and less that something is missing from the newscasts.

We are extremely proficient".