The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan The Uzbekistan State World Languages University English Faculty II department of Methods of Teaching English

Lack of L1 Listening Strategy
 
The level of listening proficiency that a person has in L1 appears to be a factor in the development of L2/FL listening skills (Aebersold & Field, 2020). When learners lack strategic knowledge, they may find it difficult to answer questions of inferential nature. “Successful L2 listening requires the transfer of old skills, rather than the learning of new ones (Ulijn & Salager-Meyer, 1998:82). As I have noticed in my classes, students do not indulge themselves in listening to short stories or news bulletins and the learning environment does not require them to learn and apply strategies of prediction or inferencing in their everyday life.

Suggestions for Teaching Teachers can use different strategies to help their students cope with different listening purposes. Strategies are clearly a way to ease the burden of listening and should be taught. (Brown, 2006). Brown also delineates listening purposes in two main categories of interactional and transactional.

Vocabulary is the most important part of this level

• In a nutshell, vocabulary is important because it’s the basis of all language. It’s the raw building blocks that we can use to express our thoughts and ideas, share information, understand others and grow personal relationships. 
• Even if we barely know a language and have zero grasp of grammar, we can still communicate (although we might end up sounding like cavemen!) 
• For example, pointing at a chocolate pastry in a French bakery and saying the few words ‘pain au chocolat’ with a friendly smile is just as likely to result in a tasty breakfast as uttering a grammatically perfect sentence. It would be nice to have both, of course, but it’s not essential. 

We see similar evidence when it comes to listening skills for the language student, for obvious reasons. 
Clearly, if you have never seen or heard a particular piece of vocabulary in a second language, it will be much harder to recognise and decode the sounds and therefore extract the meaning.