Speed Up Your Progress with English Listening Skills — Listening for Detail
Breaking down skills for focused learning
When you’re developing any new skill it is useful to break it down. For example, if you are learning a specific swimming stroke (like the front crawl or butterfly) you look carefully at what each body part is doing. If you are serious about improving you consider exactly which areas need attention and focus there.
When you are learning languages or communication skills you can use the same process of breaking it down and focusing on specific areas to speed up your progress.
Listening for detail, or specific information as it is sometimes called, is about being able to discern (hear clearly) the exact words that are being said, not just get the general meaning of the conversation.
Another common and useful listening skill is listening for gist (or main idea) which I covered in the post here.
