Class Notes

Topic : What Makes Listening Difficult Name : Laily Alvita Hamdi

Class : Accounting E
Speaker : Mega Study Done in 2010 Date : January,7th 2021
By The University Of Maryland
 Questions/Main Ideas Notes
3 characteristic or features of the lecture that affect how easy or difficult
the lecture was to understand :
1. How complex or complicated the lecture is : determined by how
advanced the grammar,the sentence structure,the vocabulary,
and the ideas are as well as how much cultural information is
included that the learner isn’t aware of.
2. Organization : determines the difficulty of a lecture.
3. How the speaker delivers the lecture : If the speaker speaks with
an accent that the students aren’t familiar with or if the speaker
speaks too fast or too quietly or not clearly enough,the students
1. Characteristic of the
may have more time to understanding the lecture.
lecture that how well an
esl student understands
2 learner characteristic that affect the difficulty of a lecture :
the information.
1. The language ability of a student and his/her experience listening
2. Characteristic of the to lectures affect how difficult the lecture will be more fluent.
learner that affect how 2. If a student’s nervous or worried or doesn’t think that he/she can
well he/she is able to understand the lecture, then the information from the lecture will
understand the be more difficult.
information.

Summary:
Some important and note-taking strategies include:
1. Doing reading about the lecture topic before the lecture topic and knowing what words to expect.
2. Not to translate the lecture in their native language.
3. Listening for the main idea of the lecture and reviewing the lecture note after class.

3 characteristic or features of the lecture that affect how easy or difficult the lecture was to understand :
1. How complex or complicated the lecture is.
2. Organization.
3. How the speaker delivers the lecture.

2 learner characteristic that affect the difficulty of a lecture :

1. The language ability of a student and his/her experience listening to lectures affect how difficult the
Lecture will be more fluent.
2. If a student’s nervous or worried or doesn’t think that he/she can understand the lecture,then the
Information will be more difficult.